The uses of ambient light for ubiquitous positioning

Jingbin Liu; Yuwei Chen; Anttoni Jaakkola; Teemu Hakala; Juha Hyyppä; Liang Chen; Jian Tang; Ruizhi Chen; Hannu Hyyppä

doi:10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851363

The uses of ambient light for ubiquitous positioning

Jingbin Liu, Yuwei Chen, Anttoni Jaakkola, Teemu Hakala, Juha Hyyppä, Liang Chen, Jian Tang, Ruizhi Chen, Hannu Hyyppä

Department of Built Environment

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Abstract

This paper proposed ambient light (ambilight) as a new type of signal sources for positioning. The possibility and methods of ambilight positioning were presented in this paper. It has been shown that two kinds of observables of ambient light can be used for positioning through different principles. Ambilight intensity spectrum measurements have highly location dependency, and they can be used for positioning with the traditional fingerprinting approach. Total ambilight irradiance intensity is used to detect the proximity of a lighting source, and a location solution can be further resolved with the support of knowledge of lighting infrastructure. Ambilight positioning can work in areas where other traditional techniques are not able to function. An ambilight sensor is cost-efficient and miniature in size, and it can be easily integrated with other sensors to form a hybrid positioning system. This paper was concluded with discussions on the possibility, applicability, challenges and outlook of the new ambient light positioning techniques.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, PLANS 2014
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	102-108
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-3320-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851363
Publication status	Published - 2014
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - Monterey, United States Duration: 5 May 2014 → 8 May 2014 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000571

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Name	IEEE/ion position location and navigation symposium
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2153-358X
ISSN (Electronic)	2153-3598

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Conference	IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium
Abbreviated title	PLANS
Country/Territory	United States
City	Monterey
Period	05/05/2014 → 08/05/2014
Internet address	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000571

Keywords

Ambient intelligence
ambient light positionig
hybrid positioning
indoor navigation
location-based service
robot localization
ubiquitous positioning

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Liu, J., Chen, Y., Jaakkola, A., Hakala, T., Hyyppä, J., Chen, L., Tang, J., Chen, R., & Hyyppä, H. (2014). The uses of ambient light for ubiquitous positioning. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, PLANS 2014 (pp. 102-108). Article 6851363 (IEEE/ion position location and navigation symposium). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851363

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Liu, J, Chen, Y, Jaakkola, A, Hakala, T, Hyyppä, J, Chen, L, Tang, J, Chen, R & Hyyppä, H 2014, The uses of ambient light for ubiquitous positioning. in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, PLANS 2014., 6851363, IEEE/ion position location and navigation symposium, IEEE, pp. 102-108, IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, Monterey, California, United States, 05/05/2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851363

The uses of ambient light for ubiquitous positioning. / Liu, Jingbin; Chen, Yuwei; Jaakkola, Anttoni et al.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, PLANS 2014. IEEE, 2014. p. 102-108 6851363 (IEEE/ion position location and navigation symposium).

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