The availability of location information has become a key factor in today's communications
systems allowing location based services. In outdoor scenarios, the mobile terminal position …

The advances in localization based technologies and the increasing importance of
ubiquitous computing and context‐dependent information have led to a growing business …

Indoor human sensing, recognition, and detection, as key enablers of building smart
environments, such as smart home, smart retail, and smart museum, have gained …

Employment of ground-based positioning systems has been consistently growing over the
past decades due to the growing number of applications that require location information …

The need to locate objects and to be situated in the space, whether inside or outside, has
long been the focus of a substantial amount of research. Especially in Wireless Sensor …

Ubiquitous connectivity among objects is the future of the coming Internet of Things era.
Technologies are competing fiercely to fulfill this goal, but none of them can fit into all …

Indoor localization has been an active research field for decades. Location determination is
normally accomplished using the Global Positioning System (GPS) for outdoor environment …

Traditional fingerprint-based positioning approaches work well on static data; they cannot
handle scenarios where the data distribution, the feature space and even the signal source …

Background Considerable number of indoor navigation systems has been proposed to
augment people with visual impairments (VI) about their surroundings. These systems …

The inertial measurement unit and ultra-wide band signal (IMU-UWB) combined indoor
positioning system has a nonlinear state equation and a linear measurement equation. In …