The EVARILOS Benchmarking Handbook: Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization Solutions

RF-based indoor localization solutions enjoy consistent efforts of researchers to provide more accurate and sustainable solutions. The multiplicity of RF-based indoor localization solutions makes their evaluation an indispensable part of future Internet. However no unified scheme has been devised for evaluation of these solutions and their robustness against various parameters. To remedy this, the EVARILOS handbook is created in order to objectively evaluate and compare different indoor localization solutions. In this work, we present an overview of the EVARILOS project whose objectives are the development and validation of standardized experiment-based benchmarks for localization solutions.

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