Indoor Navigation for Users with Mobility Aids Using Smartphones and Neighborhood Networks

Published in 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 2021

Nowadays, a significant portion of people’s activities occur in indoor spaces, such as shopping, entertaining, and working. As the layout of indoor floor plans is more complex than outdoor spaces, people rely on indoor navigation for a more convenient lifestyle. The majority of existing techniques integrate PDR with WiFi/FRID localization [1], [4], [5]. However, due to the dependency on step detection and WiFi signals, these methods can not be applied in the following scenarios: