Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 7th International ICST Conference, MobiQuitous 2010, Sydeny, Australia, December 6-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Crowd Sourcing Indoor Maps with Mobile Sensors

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_11,
        author={Yiguang Xuan and Raja Sengupta and Yaser Fallah},
        title={Crowd Sourcing Indoor Maps with Mobile Sensors},
        proceedings={Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 7th International ICST Conference, MobiQuitous 2010, Sydeny, Australia, December 6-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={crowd sourcing indoor mapping dead reckoning},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_11}
    }
    
  • Yiguang Xuan
    Raja Sengupta
    Yaser Fallah
    Year: 2012
    Crowd Sourcing Indoor Maps with Mobile Sensors
    MOBIQUITOUS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_11
Yiguang Xuan1, Raja Sengupta1, Yaser Fallah1
  • 1: University of California

Abstract

The paper describes algorithms required to enable the crowd sourcing of indoor building maps, i.e., where GPS is not available. Nevertheless to enable crowd sourcing we use the 3-axis accelerometers and the 3-axis magnetometers available in many smart phones and the piezometer in a Nike running shoe. Volunteers carry the sensors while walking around in buildings, and use some application on their smart phone to send the data to a mapping server. We present the algorithms to obtain walking trajectories from the data by dead reckoning, and to estimate indoor maps with multiple walking trajectories.