{"id":2781,"date":"2018-12-06T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2018-12-06T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:05:38","slug":"hybrid-localisation-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/hybrid-localisation-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Localisation Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our previous article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/ibeacon-microlocation-accuracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBeacon Microlocation Accuracy<\/a>, we wrote about ways of using beacon RSSI to determine location. However, what if you were to use and combine beacon RSSI with other ways of locating to create a hybrid method? This is the topic of a new research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5981662\/pdf\/sensors-18-01378.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsupervised Indoor Localization Based on\u00a0Smartphone Sensors, iBeacon and Wi-Fi<\/a> by Jing Chen Yi Zhang and Wei Xue of Jiangnan University, School of Internet of Thing Engineering, China.<\/p>\n<p>The paper describes UILoc a system combining dead reckoning, iBeacons and Wi-Fi to achieve an average localisation error is about 1.1 m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/uiloc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/uiloc.png 484w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/uiloc-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 85vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The paper also compares the trajectories obtained using different localisation schemes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alogorithmtrajectories.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alogorithmtrajectories.png 453w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alogorithmtrajectories-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 85vw, 453px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our previous article iBeacon Microlocation Accuracy, we wrote about ways of using beacon RSSI to determine location. However, what if you were to use and combine beacon RSSI with other ways of locating to create a hybrid method? This is the topic of a new research Unsupervised Indoor Localization Based on\u00a0Smartphone Sensors, iBeacon and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/hybrid-localisation-method\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hybrid Localisation Method&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31,32,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}