T-PN ME: An Enhanced Real-Time Indoor/Outdoor Navigation System Using Multiple Portable/Wearable Devices

Medhat Omr, Jacques Georgy, Walid Abdelfatah, David Auld, and Shi Shen

Abstract:	This paper presents the Trusted Portable Navigator (T-PN) ME, which is an innovative real-time navigation software that uses inertial sensor data from multiple smart devices to more accurately locate a person indoors. The T-PN ME presented here is the multi-device extension of the T-PN product line. The T-PN ME and the underlying novel techniques benefit from this redundancy of sensors to get better navigation results. A large amount of experiments were conducted to test the T-PN ME in walking and driving scenarios using multiple portable and wearable devices used freely. Smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and head mounted systems (glasses) were used in testing. The results clearly demonstrated how the T-PN ME improved the T-PN to obtain a better navigation solution.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2014) September 8 - 12, 2014 Tampa Convention Center Tampa, Florida
Pages:	223 - 228
Cite this article:	Omr, Medhat, Georgy, Jacques, Abdelfatah, Walid, Auld, David, Shen, Shi, "T-PN ME: An Enhanced Real-Time Indoor/Outdoor Navigation System Using Multiple Portable/Wearable Devices," Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2014), Tampa, Florida, September 2014, pp. 223-228.
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