DIY-IPS: Towards an Off-the-Shelf Accurate Indoor Positioning System
Riccardo Menon, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Qijun He, Athman, Bouguettaya

TL;DR
DIY-IPS is an open-source mobile app that provides real-time indoor positioning using WiFi RSSI fingerprinting, enabling easy data collection, customization, and testing for researchers without additional infrastructure.
Contribution
It introduces a customizable, open-source indoor positioning app that simplifies data collection and testing, reducing research setup time and costs.
Findings
Effective real-time indoor positioning demonstrated
Open-source tool facilitates dataset collection and method testing
Preliminary experiments confirm app's accuracy and usability
Abstract
We present DIY-IPS - Do It Yourself - Indoor Positioning System, an open-source real-time indoor positioning mobile application. DIY-IPS detects users' indoor position by employing dual-band RSSI fingerprinting of available WiFi access points. The app can be used, without additional infrastructural costs, to detect users' indoor positions in real time. We published our app as an open source to save other researchers time recreating it. The app enables researchers/users to (1) collect indoor positioning datasets with a ground truth label, (2) customize the app for higher accuracy or other research purposes (3) test the accuracy of modified methods by live testing with ground truth. We ran preliminary experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of the app.
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Taxonomy
TopicsIndoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies · Radio Wave Propagation Studies · Power Line Communications and Noise
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