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Working Group 4.1.2

Indoor Positioning and Navigation

Chair: Kefei Zhang (Australia)
Vice-Chair: Ruizhi Chen (USA)

The needs for indoor positioning and navigation have experienced unprecedented growth in the past decade due to the proliferation and ubiquitous usages of mobile devices and rapid development of Internet of Things. Location information of people and objects in indoor environments becomes a key issue for many emerging and innovative applications

The primary aims of this Working Group are:


  • Investigate emerging sensor technologies (e.g. LED, magnetometers), integrated techniques and protocols for indoor positioning and tracking


  • Discuss, investigate and develop new algorithm and smart solutions


  • Bring key researchers and developers in this area together


  • Disseminate effectively the-state-of-the-art knowledge and new discoveries in the geospatial communities


Specific projects to be undertaken include:


  • Smart tracking based hybrid indoor positioning and GIS techniques

  • Third generation of positioning system for underground mine environments

  • Tracking indoor information and people’s behaviour

  • Development of intelligent device-finder and locationfinder

  • Multi-sensor Navigation with low-cost

  • Positioning in 5G cellular communication system.