%0 Journal Article
%T Impact of Used Communication Technology on the Navigation System for Hybrid Environment
%A Juraj Machaj
%A Peter Brida
%A Michal Mlynka
%J Journal of Computer Networks and Communications
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/731015
%X This paper deals with navigation of mobile device in outdoor and indoor environment by only navigation system or application. In the paper, the navigation system is proposed in the light of seamless navigation service. Main parts of the system from positioning point of view are based on GPS and WifiLOC system. WifiLOC is an indoor positioning system based on Wi-Fi technology. The proposal of the system will be described in detail. The system is implemented at the University of Zilina as a pilot, noncommercial project; therefore it is called University Mobile Navigation System (UMNS). The navigation system can be characterized as real-time system, that is, the system operations cannot be significantly delayed. Since delay of the system depends significantly on communication platform used for map information downloading or communication with the localization server. We decided to investigate an impact of the used communication platform on the time needs for some of the functions implemented in navigation system. Measurements were performed in the real-world application. Next experiment is focused on testing of the accuracy of used indoor positioning system. Outdoor positioning accuracy is not tested because GPS is utilized in outdoor, and this system was already exhaustively investigated. 1. Introduction In past few years, high number of navigation systems for mobile devices was successfully developed. Most of these systems can be used in outdoor environment, where position of the mobile device is estimated using satellite systems like GPS (Global Positioning System) or GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System). Generally, these systems are mainly used in transport applications, to find shortest path to the given destination point in the field of navigation, but can also be used for pedestrian navigation or navigation of the blind people [1¨C4]. Similar situation is in the indoor environment. Many navigation systems were developed also for this environment and they are mostly used for navigation in large buildings [5¨C7]. Most of these systems using radio signal positioning to achieve position estimate, which is important for the navigation applications [7]. It is also possible to use a high-sensitivity GPS receivers or GPS pseudolites in the indoor environment, but this solution is still quite expensive [8, 9]. The largest number of indoor navigation systems is based on the Wi-Fi technology and use fingerprinting positioning to estimate position of mobile device [10]. In this paper, we will propose navigation system for mobile device, which can be used
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