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. 2017 Aug 22;17(8):1927. doi: 10.3390/s17081927

Table 1.

Overview of Indoor Positioning Systems.

System Type Cost Scalability Anchors Area (m2) Error
Type Value
Harter et al. [12] Time Expensive Limited 100 280 95th 0.09 m
Priyantha et al. [13,95] Time Medium Limited 6 <10 90th 0.3 m
Correa et al. [22] RSS Low Yes 6 530 RMSE 1.4 m
Palumbo et al. [23] RSS Low Yes 8 36 75th 1.8 m
Yang et al. [19] RSS Low Yes 5 3400 median 3 m
Lin et al. [27] Proximity Low Yes 12 300 room detection 97.2 %
Bolic et al. [25] Proximity Low Yes 24 8 RMSE 0.32 m
Bahl et al. [30] Fingerprinting Medium Limited 3 980 75th 4.69 m
Han et al. [31] Fingerprinting Medium Limited 3400 192,200 75th 3–9 m
Youssef et al. [35] Fingerprinting Medium Limited 21 1700 90th 1.4 m
Wu et al. [34] Magnetic fingerprinting Low Limited 0 4000 90th 2.5 m
Foxlin et al. [38] Inertial Low Yes 0 75 % travelled path 0.3 %
Jimenez et al. [39] Inertial Low Yes 0 3600 % travelled path 0.3–1.5 %
Angermann et al. [44] Inertial Low Limited 0 600 RMSE 1–2 m