Visual Localisation of Mobile Devices in an Indoor Environment under Network Delay Conditions

TL;DR

This paper investigates the impact of network delays on indoor mobile device localization and proposes a web service solution that minimizes delay compared to socket-based methods.

Contribution

It introduces a web service approach for indoor localization that reduces delay, enhancing interoperability in home automation and robotics environments.

Findings

Web service delays are comparable to socket delays in localization.

The proposed web service improves real-time location data retrieval.

Interoperability is enhanced with minimal delay in indoor environments.

Abstract

Current progresses in home automation and service robotic environment have highlighted the need to develop interoperability mechanisms that allow a standard communication between the two systems. During the development of the DHCompliant protocol, the problem of locating mobile devices in an indoor environment has been investigated. The communication of the device with the location service has been carried out to study the time delay that web services offer in front of the sockets. The importance of obtaining data from real-time location systems portends that a basic tool for interoperability, such as web services, can be ineffective in this scenario because of the delays added in the invocation of services. This paper is focused on introducing a web service to resolve a coordinates request without any significant delay in comparison with the sockets.