Beep: 3D indoor positioning using audible sound

Atri Mandai; Cristina V. Lopes; Tony Givargis; Amir Haghighat; Raja Jurdak; Pierre Baldi

doi:10.1109/CCNC.2005.1405195

Beep: 3D indoor positioning using audible sound

Atri Mandai^*, Cristina V. Lopes, Tony Givargis, Amir Haghighat, Raja Jurdak, Pierre Baldi

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Abstract

Rapid growth in the number of wireless enabled devices has led to an increased interest in location-aware applications. The backbone of such applications is provided by a location system. In this paper we present Beep, an indoor location system that senses audible sound. The use of audible sound makes our system cheap and easily deployable to most existing roaming devices. Unlike positioning systems using ultrasound and infrared signals, Beep does not require the user to carry any kind of specialized hardware. Our system is based on standard 3D multilateration algorithms. However, the requirement of being able to locate existing devices, whose sound cards were not designed for high-precision signaling, introduces additional challenges to the location problem. This paper describes how those problems were solved and presents experimental results. Beep works with an accuracy of about 2 feet in more than 97% cases. The paper also describes a sensor deployment strategy that requires low sensor density and consequently low installation costs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Second IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2005. CCNC. 2005
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	348-353
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	0780387848, 9780780387843
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2005.1405195
Publication status	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	2005 2nd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC2005 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: 3 Jan 2005 → 6 Jan 2005

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Other	2005 2nd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	3/01/05 → 6/01/05

Keywords

3D multilateration
Audible sound
Indoor positioning
Location-based services
Pervasive computing
Sensor density

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Mandai, A, Lopes, CV, Givargis, T, Haghighat, A, Jurdak, R & Baldi, P 2005, Beep: 3D indoor positioning using audible sound. in Second IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2005. CCNC. 2005., 1405195, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 348-353, 2005 2nd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC2005, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 3/01/05. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2005.1405195

Beep: 3D indoor positioning using audible sound. / Mandai, Atri; Lopes, Cristina V.; Givargis, Tony et al.
Second IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2005. CCNC. 2005. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005. p. 348-353 1405195.

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