• 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   A Statistical Approach for Studying the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Geolocated Tweets in Urban Environments 

      Santa, Fernando; Henriques, Roberto; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Pebesma, Edzer MDPI (2019)
      An in-depth descriptive approach to the dynamics of the urban population is fundamental as a first step towards promoting effective planning and designing processes in cities. Understanding the behavioral aspects of human ...
    • openAccess   An Indoor Positioning System Based on Wearables for Ambient-Assisted Living 

      Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Puertas-Cabedo, Adrian; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Trilles, Sergio MDPI (2016)
      The urban population is growing at such a rate that by 2050 it is estimated that 84% of the world’s population will live in cities, with flats being the most common living place. Moreover, WiFi technology is present in ...
    • closedAccess   ATM-based analysis and recognition of handball team activities 

      Montoliu Colás, Raul; Martín Félez, Raúl; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Rodríguez Pérez, Sergio Elsevier (2015)
      In this paper, a new methodology based on the Author Topic Model (ATM) method is presented to perform team activity recognition and analysis in handball videos. Instead of using players׳ trajectories we just rely on low ...
    • openAccess   Collaborative Indoor Positioning Systems: A Systematic Review 

      Pascacio, Pavel; Casteleyn, Sven; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Lohan, Elena Simona; Nurmi, Jari MDPI (2021)
      Research and development in Collaborative Indoor Positioning Systems (CIPSs) is growing steadily due to their potential to improve on the performance of their non-collaborative counterparts. In contrast to the outdoors ...
    • openAccess   Comparing the Performance of Indoor Localization Systems through the EvAAL Framework 

      Potortì, Francesco; Park, Sangjoon; Jimenez Ruiz, Antonio Ramon; Barsocchi, Paolo; GIROLAMI, MICHELE; Crivello, Antonino; Lee, So-Yeon; Lim, Jae Hyun; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Seco, Fernando; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Mendoza-Silva, Germán Martín; María del Carmen, Pérez Rubio; Cristina, Losada Gutiérrez; Espinosa, Felipe; Macias-Guarasa, Javier MDPI (2017)
      In recent years, indoor localization systems have been the object of significant research activity and of growing interest for their great expected social impact and their impressive business potential. Application areas ...
    • openAccess   D2D-based Cooperative Positioning Paradigm for Future Wireless Systems: A Survey 

      Chukhno, Nadezhda; Trilles, Sergio; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Iera, Antonio; ARANITI, Giuseppe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2021-07-21)
      Emerging communication network applications require a location accuracy of less than 1m in more than 95% of the service area. For this purpose, 5G New Radio (NR) technology is designed to facilitate high-accuracy continuous ...
    • openAccess   Deployment of an open sensorized platform in a smart city context 

      Trilles, Sergio; Calia, Andrea; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Huerta, Joaquin Elsevier (2017-11)
      The race to achieve smart cities is producing a continuous effort to adapt new developments and knowledge, for administrations and citizens. Information and Communications Technology are called on to be one of the key ...
    • openAccess   Development of an open sensorized platform in a smart agriculture context: A vineyard support system for monitoring mildew disease 

      Trilles, Sergio; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Zarazaga-Soria, F. Javier; González-Pérez, Alberto; Huerta, Joaquin Elsevier (2019)
      In recent years, some offcial reports, to produce best products regarding quality, quantity and economic conditions, recommend that the farming sector should benefit with new tools and techniques coming from Information ...
    • 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   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: ...
    • openAccess   EWOk: Towards Efficient Multidimensional Compression of Indoor Positioning Datasets (Epub ahead of print) 

      Klus, Lucie; Klus, Roman; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Lohan, Elena Simona; Granell, Carlos; Nurmi, Jari Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (2023-05-17)
      Indoor positioning performed directly at the end-user device ensures reliability in case the network connection fails but is limited by the size of the RSS radio map necessary to match the measured array to the device’s ...
    • openAccess   Indoor Positioning and Fingerprinting:The R Package ipft 

      Sansano-Sansano, Emilio; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín The R Foundation (2019)
      Methods based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fingerprinting are in theforefront among several techniques being proposed for indoor positioning. This paper introducesthe R packageipft, which provides ...
    • openAccess   L/F-CIPS: collaborative indoor positioning for smartphones with lateration and fingerprinting 

      Pascacio, Pavel; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Casteleyn, Sven; Lohan, Elena Simona; Nurmi, Jari (2023-08-29)
      The demand for indoor location-based services (LBS) and the wide availability of mobile devices have triggered research into new positioning systems able to provide accurate indoor positions using smartphones. However, ...
    • openAccess   Mobile device-based Bluetooth Low Energy Database for range estimation in indoor environments 

      Pascacio, Pavel; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Jiménez, Antonio R.; Casteleyn, Sven Nature Research (2022)
      The demand to enhance distance estimation and location accuracy in a variety of Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) indoor environments has boosted investigation into infrastructure-less ranging and collaborative positioning approaches. ...
    • openAccess   Off-Line Evaluation of Mobile-Centric Indoor Positioning Systems: The Experiences from the 2017 IPIN Competition 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Jiménez, Antonio R.; Moreira, Adriano; Lungenstrass, Tomás; Lu, Wei-Chung; Knauth, Stefan; Mendoza-Silva, Germán Martín; Seco, Fernando; Perez-Navarro, Antoni; Nicolau, Maria João; Costa, António; Meneses, Filipe; Farina, Joaquín; Morales, Juan Pablo; Lu, Wen-Chen; Cheng, Ho-Ti; Yang, Shi-Shen; Fang, Shih-Hau; Chien, Ying-Ren; Tsao, Yu MDPI (2018)
      The development of indoor positioning solutions using smartphones is a growing activity with an enormous potential for everyday life and professional applications. The research activities on this topic concentrate on the ...
    • openAccess   SEnviro: A Sensorized Platform Proposal Using Open Hardware and Open Standards 

      Trilles, Sergio; Luján, Alejandro; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Huerta, Joaquin MDPI (2015-03)
      The need for constant monitoring of environmental conditions has produced an increase in the development of wireless sensor networks (WSN). The drive towards smart cities has produced the need for smart sensors to be able ...
    • openAccess   Smart Outdoor Light Desktop Central Management System 

      Llidó Escrivá, Dolores María; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael IEEE (2018-04)
      Light pollution and nature preservation, are new trends in which the European cities are involved as they evolve into Smart Cities. Internet of Things are changing the way that sensors and management control systems are ...
    • openAccess   Tecnologías de posicionamiento en interiores al servicio de una biblioteca universitaria: hacia la smart library 

      Aguilar Moreno, Estefanía; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín EPI SCP (2016)
      Se presenta un caso de uso de la aplicación de tecnologías geoespaciales en una biblioteca universitaria. En concreto, se han desarrollado dos aplicaciones capaces de obtener la localización de los ejemplares buscados por ...