Integrated local positioning platform for building indoor location-based services
In this project, we consider the general problem of tracking a large volume of mobile entities, and the ways giving efficient and appropriate access to the collected information. Our final goal is to provide a development platform, enabling application developer to efficiently develop location based services.
The objectives of this project are:
HES-SO Valais is in charge for the development of the low power, low cost indoor tracking system. Since existing wireless communication technologies like RF-ID, ZigBee, WiFi and others have not entirely been conceived for indoor tracking purposes, they are not well suited for our needs. Hence we are working on a proprietary, “Received Signal Strength” based solution, fulfilling requirements as low cost, low power, localization accuracy, robustness, reliability and easy deployment and maintenance.
This project is developed jointly by the HES-SO and the University of Lausanne (UNIL).
Prof. Riad Kanan has invented and patented technology for designing low-power mobile nodes for indoor localization system.