Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services

Basiri, Anahid; Peltola, Pekka; Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro; Lohan, Elena Simona; Moore, Terry; Hill, Chris

Abstract

Indoor positioning is one of the biggest challenges of many Location Based Services (LBS), especially if the target users are pedestrians, who spend most of their time in roofed areas such as houses, offices, airports, shopping centres and in general indoors. Providing pedestrians with accurate, reliable, cheap, low power consuming and continuously available positional data inside the buildings (i.e. indoors) where GNSS signals are not usually available is difficult. Several positioning technologies can be applied as stand-alone indoor positioning technologies. They include Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Tactile Floor (TF), Ultra Sound (US) and High Sensitivity GNSS (HSGNSS). This paper evaluates the practicality and fitness-to-the-purpose of pedestrian navigation for these stand-alone positioning technologies to identify the best one for the purpose of indoor pedestrian navigation. In this regard, the most important criteria defining a suitable positioning service for pedestrian navigation are identified and prioritised. They include accuracy, availability, cost, power consumption and privacy. Each technology is evaluated according to each criterion using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and finally the combination of all weighted criteria and technologies are processed to identify the most suitable solution.

Citation

Basiri, A., Peltola, P., Figueiredo e Silva, P., Lohan, E. S., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2015). Indoor positioning technology assessment using analytic hierarchy process for pedestrian navigation services. In 2015 International Conference on Location and GNSS (ICL-GNSS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2015.7217157

• Conference Name: 2015 International Conference on Location and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)
• End Date: Jun 2, 2015
• Publication Date: Jun 22, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jun 23, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 23, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: 2015 International Conference on Location and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2015.7217157
• Keywords: Indoor positioning; Pedestrian navigation; Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/753954
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2015.7217157
• Additional Information: Published in: 2015 International Conference on Location and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), Gothenburg, 2015, (ISSN 2325-0747 ), pp. 1-6 © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works