• openAccess   A Comprehensive and Reproducible Comparison of Clustering and Optimization Rules in Wi-Fi Fingerprinting2020 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Richter, Philipp; Moreira, Adriano; Mendoza-Silva, Germán Martín; Lohan, Elena Simona; Trilles, Sergio; Matey-Sanz, Miguel; Huerta, Joaquin IEEE (2020-08-17)
      Wi-Fi fingerprinting is a well-known technique used for indoor positioning. It relies on a pattern recognition method that compares the captured operational fingerprint with a set of previously collected reference samples ...
    • openAccess   A Meta-Review of Indoor Positioning Systems 

      Mendoza-Silva, Germán Martín; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Huerta, Joaquin MDPI (2019)
      An accurate and reliable Indoor Positioning System (IPS) applicable to most indoor scenarios has been sought for many years. The number of technologies, techniques, and approaches in general used in IPS proposals is ...
    • openAccess   A realistic evaluation of indoor positioning systems based on Wi-Fi fingerprinting: The 2015 EvAAL–ETRI competition 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Moreira, Adriano; Knauth, Stefan; Berkvens, Rafael; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Trilles, Sergio; Nicolau, Maria João; Meneses, Filipe; Costa, António; Koukofikis, Athanasios; Weyn, Maarten; Peremans, Herbert IOS press (2017-02)
      This paper presents results from comparing different Wi-Fi fingerprinting algorithms on the same private dataset. The algorithms where realized by independent teams in the frame of the off-site track of the EvAAL–ETRI ...
    • openAccess   Accuracy of a single position estimate for kNN-based fingerprinting indoor positioning applying error propagation theory 

      Perez-Navarro, Antoni; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Sansano-Sansano, Emilio; Martínez Garcia, marina; Femenia, Ruben; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín IEEE (2023-06-23)
      Indoor Positioning Systems usually consider the average positioning error over a set of evaluation samples, or a quartile of that value, as the global error. However, they do not provide a metric for the uncertainty for ...
    • openAccess   Analysis of Received Signal Strength Quantization in Fingerprinting Localization 

      Khandker, Syed; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Ristaniemi, Tapani MDPI (2020)
      In recent times, Received Signal Strength (RSS)-based Wi-Fi fingerprinting localization has become one of the most promising techniques for indoor localization. The primary aim of RSS is to check the quality of the signal ...
    • openAccess   Autoencoder Extreme Learning Machine for Fingerprint-Based Positioning: A Good Weight Initialization is Decisive 

      Quezada Gaibor, Darwin; Klus, Lucie; Klus, Roman; Lohan, Elena Simona; Nurmi, Jari; Valkama, Mikko; Huerta, Joaquin IEEE (2023-07-27)
      Indoor positioning based on machine-learning (ML) models has attracted widespread interest in the last few years, given its high performance and usability. Supervised, semisupervised, and unsupervised models have thus been ...
    • closedAccess   Data Cleansing for Indoor Positioning Wi-Fi Fingerprinting Datasets 

      Quezada Gaibor, Darwin; Klus, Lucie; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Lohan, Elena Simona; Nurmi, Jari; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin IEEE (2022)
      Wearable and IoT devices requiring positioning and localisation services grow in number exponentially every year. This rapid growth also produces millions of data entries that need to be pre-processed prior to being ...
    • openAccess   Enhancing integrated indoor/outdoor mobility in a smart campus 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Avariento, Joan; Rambla Risueño, David; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Casteleyn, Sven; Benedito Bordonau, Mauri; Gould, Michael; Huerta, Joaquin Taylor & Francis (2015-05-28)
      A Smart City relies on six key factors: Smart Governance, Smart People, Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Smart Living and Smart Mobility. This paper focuses on Smart Mobility by improving one of its key components: ...
    • closedAccess   Enhancing Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Mobility in a Smart Campus 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Avariento, Joan; Rambla Risueño, David; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Casteleyn, Sven; Benedito-Bordonau, Mauri; Gould, Michael; Huerta, Joaquin Taylor & Francis (2015-11)
      A Smart City relies on six key factors: Smart Governance, Smart People, Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Smart Living and Smart Mobility. This paper focuses on Smart Mobility by improving one of its key components: ...
    • openAccess   Ensembling Multiple Radio Maps with Dynamic Noise in Fingerprint-based Indoor Positioning 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Aranda Polo, Fernando Jesús; Álvarez, Fernando J.; Quezada Gaibor, Darwin; Silva, Ivo; Pendão, Cristiano; Moreira, Adriano Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2021-06-15)
      Fingerprint-based indoor positioning is widely used in many contexts, including pedestrian and autonomous vehicles navigation. Many approaches have used traditional Machine Learning models to deal with fingerprinting, ...
    • openAccess   Environment-Aware Regression for Indoor Localization based on WiFi Fingerprinting 

      Mendoza-Silva, Germán Martín; Costa, Ana Cristina; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Painho, Marco; Huerta, Joaquin Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2021-04-19)
      Data enrichment through interpolation or regression is a common approach to deal with sample collection for Indoor Localization with WiFi fingerprinting. This paper provides guidelines on where to collect WiFi samples, and ...
    • openAccess   Evaluating Indoor Positioning Systems in a Shopping Mall: The Lessons Learned From the IPIN 2018 Competition 

      Renaudin, Valerie; Ortiz, Miguel; PERUL, Johan; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Jiménez, Antonio R.; Perez-Navarro, Antoni; Mendoza-Silva, Germán Martín; Seco, Fernando; Landau, Yael; Marbel, Revital; Ben-Moshe, Boaz; Zheng, Xingyu; Feng, Ye; Kuang, Jian; Li, Yu; Niu, Xiaoji; Landa, Vlad; Hacohen, Shlomi; shvalb, Nir; Lu, Chuanhua; Uchiyama, Hideaki IEEE (2019-09-30)
      The Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) conference holds an annual competition in which indoor localization systems from different research groups worldwide are evaluated empirically. The objective of this ...
    • openAccess   In-home monitoring system based on WiFi fingerprints for ambient assisted living 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Trilles, Sergio; Calia, Andrea IOS (2017-08)
      This paper presents an in-home monitoring system based on WiFi fingerprints for Ambient Assisted Living. WiFi fingerprints are used to continuously locate a patient at the different rooms in her/his home. The experiments ...
    • openAccess   Influence of Measured Radio Map Interpolation on Indoor Positioning Algorithms 

      Bravenec, Tomáš; Gould, Michael; Fryza, Tomas; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín IEEE (2023-07-24)
      Indoor positioning and navigation increasingly have become popular, and there are many different approaches, using different technologies. In nearly all of the approaches, the locational accuracy depends on signal propagation ...
    • openAccess   Lightweight Wi-Fi Fingerprinting with a Novel RSS Clustering Algorithm 

      Quezada Gaibor, Darwin; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Nurmi, Jari; Koucheryavy, Yevgeni; Huerta, Joaquin IEEE (2021-11-29)
      Nowadays, several indoor positioning solutions sup-port Wi-Fi and use this technology to estimate the user position. It is characterized by its low cost, availability in indoor and outdoor environments, and a wide variety ...
    • openAccess   Magnetic Field as a Characterization of Wide and Narrow Spaces in a Real Challenging Scenario Using Dynamic Time Warping 

      Perez-Navarro, Antoni; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Conesa, Jordi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2018-11-15)
      This paper presents a study of indoor positioning in public zones of the Parc Taulí Hospital in Sabadell. It is a challenging scenario because: (1) it combines wide spaces with middle sized and narrow spaces; (2) it is a ...
    • openAccess   Posicionamiento en interiores mediante balizas bluetooth de bajo consumo y sensores inerciales 

      Higueras Ruiz, Jaime Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-13)
      En este documento se detalla el proceso de creación de un sistema de posicionamiento en interiores basado en la combinación de un sistema que aprovecha los sensores inerciales de un dispositivo Android y un sistema que ...
    • openAccess   RSS Fingerprinting Dataset Size Reduction Using Feature-Wise Adaptive k-Means Clustering 

      Klus, Lucie; Quezada Gaibor, Darwin; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Lohan, Elena Simona; Granell, Carlos; Nurmi, Jari IEEE (2020-10)
      Modern IoT devices, that include smartphones and wearables, usually have limited resources. They require efficient methods to optimize the use of internal storage, provide computational efficiency, and reduce energy ...
    • openAccess   Sensorización de interiores para monitorizar personas u objetos 

      Fibla Escoto, Dídac Universitat Jaume I (2021-09-15)
      Las tecnologías geoespaciales son de gran utilizan para empresas y administraciones ya que permiten obtener información de gran valor. Se trata un campo que se encuentra en constante crecimiento en la actualidad. Este ...
    • closedAccess   Towards Accelerated Localization Performance Across Indoor Positioning Datasets 

      Klus, Lucie; Quezada Gaibor, Darwin; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Lohan, Elena Simona; Granell, Carlos; Nurmi, Jari IEEE (2022)
      The localization speed and accuracy in the indoor scenario can greatly impact the Quality of Experience of the user. While many individual machine learning models can achieve comparable positioning performance, their ...