Indoor position tracking: An application using the Arduino mobile platform

Abstract

Position tracking is a key service in the context of vehicular networks. It serves as a basis for other services such as navigation, traffic regulation and statistical reporting. Position tracking can not depend exclusively on satellite signals, since those are usually not totally available for indoor applications. The approach of using fixed anchors helps to fill this gap and allows better result in terms of accuracy than ordinary GPS services. This work presents an implementation of an indoor position tracking service for a vehicular network by using the Arduino mobile platform with a vehicle robot. We use a set of low cost sensors to perform an experiment where we investigate and evaluate the performance of new possible solutions.