A Model-based Approach for Indoor Localization Leveraging Single Mobile Sensor

As widely deployed WiFi sensors in indoor scenarios, e.g., WiFi access points and WiFi monitors, WiFi signal-based indoor localization has attracted increasing attention from research communities in the past decade. Among various WiFi-based localization techniques, received signal strength (RSS) fingerprinting based on multiple sensors reveals its superiority and effectiveness in complex indoor environments. Existing multi-sensor-based techniques mainly focus on designing efficient algorithms to improve localization performance. However, the limitations of 1) densely pre-deployed WiFi sensors and, 2) sensitivity to changing sensors are not considered appropriately. In this paper, we propose a novel technique called Single Mobile Sensor (SMS) localization, which leverages a single mobile sensor for indoor localization. The SMS localization technique employs a fingerprinting technique with a custom-designed model, named SMS Fingerprint Matching (SMSFM) model, which is responsible for matching fingerprints constructed by a single mobile sensor to estimate targets' location. Numerous experiments conducted on a practical testbed have revealed that the SMSFM model surpasses conventional models, leading to SMS localization delivering competitive localization accuracy compared to previous multi-sensor-based technologies, despite relying solely on a single sensor.