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    Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions


    Basiri, Anahid and Lohan, Elena Simona and Moore, Terry and Winstanley, Adam C. and Peltola, Pekka and Hill, Chris and Amirian, Pouria and Figueiredo e Silva, Pedro (2017) Indoor location based services challenges, requirements and usability of current solutions. Computer Science Review, 24. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1574-0137

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    Abstract

    Indoor Location Based Services (LBS), such as indoor navigation and tracking, still have to deal with both technical and non-technical challenges. For this reason, they have not yet found a prominent position in people’s everyday lives. Reliability and availability of indoor positioning technologies, the availability of up-to-date indoor maps, and privacy concerns associated with location data are some of the biggest challenges to their development. If these challenges were solved, or at least minimized, there would be more penetration into the user market. This paper studies the requirements of LBS applications, through a survey conducted by the authors, identifies the current challenges of indoor LBS, and reviews the available solutions that address the most important challenge, that of providing seamless indoor/outdoor positioning. The paper also looks at the potential of emerging solutions and the technologies that may help to handle this challenge.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Indoor positioning; Location-based services; Location privacy;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
    Item ID: 11800
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2017.03.002
    Depositing User: Dr. Adam Winstanley
    Date Deposited: 21 Nov 2019 16:32
    Journal or Publication Title: Computer Science Review
    Publisher: Elsevier
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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