Indoor Atlas Service as a Tool for Building an Interior Navigation System

Abstract

Indoor navigation is a technology challenge relatively difficult to tackle. This paper examines and describes the implementation of a new approach to indoor navigation using the IndoorAtlas service, which was used to design and implement a prototype application. This is based on the positioning of mobile phone devices, and with the help of the aforementioned service, specific properties of the building are obtained – these include the magnetic fingerprints, a result of the interaction of the Earth's magnetic field with the ferromagnetic materials used in the construction of buildings. In our case, this service was used in correlation with the Java programming language for the Android platform. The publication also contains experiments carried out on the premises of the selected building. Several main measures were made. In the selected environment, the completed measurements demonstrated, that the proposed application fullfils the criteria of a fully functional indoor navigation, with average deviation within the parameters specified by the manufacturer.