Indoor people tracking based on dynamic weighted MultiDimensional scaling

Jose Maria Cabero, Aritz Sanchez, Fernando De La Torre, Iñigo Arizaga

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Abstract

Accurate location of people in indoor environments is a key aspect of many applications such as resource management or security. In this paper, we explore the use of short-range radio technologies to track people indoors. The network consists of two kind of radio nodes: static nodes (anchors) and mobile nodes (people). From a set of sparse connectivity matrices (people vs. people and people vs. anchors) at each time instant and people's dynamics, we infer people's trajectories. To combine connectivity and dynamic information, we propose an extension of Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), Dynamic Weighted MDS (DWMDS), that finds an embedding of people's trajectories (x and y coordinates of people through time). DWMDS has proven to be more accurate and effective, especially for low connectivity degree networks (i.e. sparse networks), compared to existing location algorithms. Extensive simulations show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMSWiM'07
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Tenth ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
Pages328-335
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
EventMSWiM'07: 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems - Chania, Crete Island, Greece
Duration: 22 Oct 200726 Oct 2007

Publication series

NameMSWiM'07: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Conference

ConferenceMSWiM'07: 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityChania, Crete Island
Period22/10/0726/10/07

Keywords

  • Connectivity data
  • Indoor tracking
  • People's dynamics
  • RSS
  • Short-range radio technologies

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