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Types Of Indoor Positioning System And Its Working

In recent years, indoor positioning systems have gained huge popularity and are widely used to find the location. A wireless  positioning system  helps to locate people or objects inside a large facility such as malls, restaurants, hospitals, warehouses, etc. In indoor surrounding positioning lack of GPS signals and line of sight with orbiting satellites makes positioning complex as compared to outdoor surrounding. The location information is fed to a software application to make the information useful.  There are several different technologies used for indoor navigation; some of them are listed below: ·  Proximity-based Systems ·  Ultra Wide-band Systems ·  WiFi-based Systems Proximity-based Systems   This system can detect the general location of a person or an object on a room level inside a large facility. It uses tags and beacons for indoor positioning. There are two types of reader-based or reference point-based.    Ultra Wide-band Sys...