Presentation 2018-03-07
Positioning Performance Evaluation of BLE Positioning System
Kosuke Omura, Tetsuya Manabe,
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Abstract(in English) This paper evaluates smartphone positioning performance using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to clarify the performance and features of smartphone positioning subsystems. Using the pseudo generated Received Signal Strength (RSS) and the RSS logged in the real environment, we evaluate performance and features of BLE positioning system. We use probabilistic and deterministic methods as positioning algorithms. Evaluation shows that the influence of Non Line Of Sight (NLOS) on the positioning performance differs depending on the positioning algorithm. In addition, from the experimental results, we investigate a method of improving positioning performance by cooperation of positioning algorithms with different characteristics. Based on the above, we show the difference in performance and characteristics of positioning performance by the positioning algorithm.
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Keyword(in English) BLE Positioning System / Scene Analysis / Proximity
Paper # ITS2017-85
Date of Issue 2018-02-28 (ITS)

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Committee ITS / IEE-ITS
Conference Date 2018/3/7(2days)
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Place (in English) Kyoto Univ.
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Chair Takayoshi Yokota(Tottori Univ.)
Vice Chair Masahiro Fujii(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Tomotaka Wada(Kansai Univ.)
Secretary Masahiro Fujii(Meiji Univ.) / Tomotaka Wada(Saitama Univ.)
Assistant Msataka Imao(ME) / Yanlei Gu(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kenshi Saho(Toyama Prefectural Univ.) / Kouichiro Hashiura(Akita Prefectural Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Intelligent Transport Systems Technology / Technical Meeting on Intelligent Transport Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Positioning Performance Evaluation of BLE Positioning System
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) BLE Positioning System
Keyword(2) Scene Analysis
Keyword(3) Proximity
1st Author's Name Kosuke Omura
1st Author's Affiliation Saitama University(Saitama Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Tetsuya Manabe
2nd Author's Affiliation Saitama University(Saitama Univ.)
Date 2018-03-07
Paper # ITS2017-85
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) ITS-478
Page pp.pp.23-28(ITS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-02-28 (ITS)