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Experiences & Challenges With Server-Side Wifi Indoor Localization Using Existing Infrastructure, Dheryta Jaisinghani, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Vinayak Naik, Archan Misra, Youngki Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Real-world deployments of WiFi-based indoor localization in large public venues are few and far between as most state-of-the-art solutions require either client or infrastructure-side changes. Hence, even though high location accuracy is possible with these solutions, they are not practical due to cost and/or client adoption reasons. Majority of the public venues use commercial controller-managed WLAN solutions, that neither allow client changes nor infrastructure changes. In fact, for such venues we have observed highly heterogeneous devices with very low adoption rates for client-side apps. In this paper, we present our experiences in deploying a scalable location system for such venues. …