Performance analysis of the IOPES seamless indoor-outdoor positioning approach

Tracking the members of civil protection or emergency teams is still an open issue. Although outdoors tracking is routinely performed using well-seasoned techniques such as GNSS, this same problem must be still solved for indoors situations. There exist several approaches for indoor positioning, but...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Angelats Company, Eduard, Espín López, Pedro Fidel, Navarro Esteban, José Antonio, Parés Calaf, Maria Eulàlia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/367058
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/367058
https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2021-229-2021
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Disaster management
Indoor positioning systems (Wireless localization)
Global Positioning System
Indoor-outdoor positioning
Emergency response
Sensor fusion
Sistema de posicionament global
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació
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Sumario:Tracking the members of civil protection or emergency teams is still an open issue. Although outdoors tracking is routinely performed using well-seasoned techniques such as GNSS, this same problem must be still solved for indoors situations. There exist several approaches for indoor positioning, but these are not appropriate for tracking emergency staff in real-time: some of these approaches rely on existing infrastructures; others have not been tested in light devices in real-time; none offers a combined solution. The IOPES project seeks to solve or at least alleviate this problem by building a portable, unobtrusive, lightweight device combining GNSS for outdoor positioning and visual-inertial odometry / SLAM for the indoors case. This work, the third of the IOPES series, presents the analysis of the performance results obtained after developing and testing the first IOPES prototype. To do it, the operational aspects of the prototype, the real-life scenarios where the tests took place and the actual results thus obtained are described.