Citation
Anthony Rowe. "Indoor Localization: Where are we? Where are we going?". Tutorial, 8, May, 2017.

Abstract
Over 300 years ago, an English carpenter realized that the key to safely navigating the ocean was being able to precisely measure time. He dedicated his life to building clocks that remained steady in rough water and across a wide range of temperatures. Since then, timing and localization technologies have continued to push the limits of technology resulting in systems like GPS and instruments that are able peer into the nature of gravitational waves. Unfortunately, existing localization technologies based on satellites and WiFi tend to perform poorly indoors or in urban environments. In the context of enclosed spaces, precise synchronization and localization has the potential to enable applications ranging from asset tracking, indoor navigation and augmented reality all the way to highly optimized beam forming for improved spatial capacity of wireless networks and enhancing network security. In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of the state-of-the-art with respect to indoor location tracking and discuss a few of the new systems that have been developed within the TerraSwarm Center. The first is a hybrid Bluetooth low-energy and near ultrasonic beaconing platform developed by CMU that provides sub-meter location accuracy to standard smartphones. The second is a UWB-based system developed by University of Michigan that accurately localizes low-powered tags. This platform lead to a self-calibrating automatic deployment algorithm developed in conjunction with U. Penn and Michigan for automatically bootstrapping beacon networks. Finally, I will discuss where we are with respect to our vision of heterogeneous, opportunistic, self-configuring swarm localization that is both accurate and cost-effective.

Electronic downloads

• https://www.terraswarm.org/terraswarm/wiki/Main/Localization. (Internal web page with registration link)
• LocalizationRowe08May2017Reduced.pdf · application/pdf · 6298 kbytes
• https://www.src.org/library/publication/p090865/
• https://src.webex.com/src/lsr.php?RCID=c8e02e6266114548873635715bdc55a9. (Recording)

• HTML

  Anthony Rowe. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/923.html"
  ><i>Indoor Localization: Where are we? Where are we
  going?</i></a>, Tutorial,  8, May, 2017.

• Plain text

  Anthony Rowe. "Indoor Localization: Where are we? Where
  are we going?". Tutorial,  8, May, 2017.

• BibTeX

  @tutorial{Rowe17_IndoorLocalizationWhereAreWeWhereAreWeGoing,
      author = {Anthony Rowe},
      title = {Indoor Localization: Where are we? Where are we
                going?},
      day = {8},
      month = {May},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {Over 300 years ago, an English carpenter realized
                that the key to safely navigating the ocean was
                being able to precisely measure time. He dedicated
                his life to building clocks that remained steady
                in rough water and across a wide range of
                temperatures. Since then, timing and localization
                technologies have continued to push the limits of
                technology resulting in systems like GPS and
                instruments that are able peer into the nature of
                gravitational waves. Unfortunately, existing
                localization technologies based on satellites and
                WiFi tend to perform poorly indoors or in urban
                environments. In the context of enclosed spaces,
                precise synchronization and localization has the
                potential to enable applications ranging from
                asset tracking, indoor navigation and augmented
                reality all the way to highly optimized beam
                forming for improved spatial capacity of wireless
                networks and enhancing network security. In this
                talk, I will provide a brief overview of the
                state-of-the-art with respect to indoor location
                tracking and discuss a few of the new systems that
                have been developed within the TerraSwarm Center.
                The first is a hybrid Bluetooth low-energy and
                near ultrasonic beaconing platform developed by
                CMU that provides sub-meter location accuracy to
                standard smartphones. The second is a UWB-based
                system developed by University of Michigan that
                accurately localizes low-powered tags. This
                platform lead to a self-calibrating automatic
                deployment algorithm developed in conjunction with
                U. Penn and Michigan for automatically
                bootstrapping beacon networks. Finally, I will
                discuss where we are with respect to our vision of
                heterogeneous, opportunistic, self-configuring
                swarm localization that is both accurate and
                cost-effective. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/923.html}
  }
  

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