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Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications

Sayı: Advanced Online Publication Erken Görünüm Tarihi: 13 Eylül 2026
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Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications

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Context—Global navigation satellite system signals are strongly attenuated indoors, where multipath, non-line-of-sight propagation, device heterogeneity, and changing occupancy limit outdoor positioning methods. The diversity of indoor technologies and inconsistent accuracy metrics also complicate direct, application-oriented comparison.

Objective—This structured narrative review connects measurement observables, estimation algorithms, protocol capabilities, validation design, artificial intelligence, governance, and life-cycle requirements to an auditable technology-selection decision.

Method—IEEE Xplore, the ACM Digital Library, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched together with official ISO/IEC, IEEE, Bluetooth SIG, 3GPP, ETSI, CEPT, and national regulatory documents. The search was updated on 22 July 2026. The final evidence map comprised 103 unique sources prioritized as recent reviews, standards and official technical documents, and representative experiments.

Results—Received signal strength, channel state information, time-of-flight, round-trip time, time-difference-of-arrival, and angle measurements support proximity, geometric estimation, fingerprinting, and sensor fusion. Performance depends on hardware, anchor geometry, calibration, line-of-sight ratio, and test design. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth commonly provide environment-dependent meter-level positioning or robust room/zone awareness, whereas ultra-wideband can reach centimeter-to-decimeter accuracy in favorable deployments. Visible-light, acoustic, geomagnetic, artificial-magnetic, and device-free systems add complementary capabilities but also introduce visibility, reverberation, map-maintenance, privacy, or hardware constraints. Learning-based methods can improve nonlinear mapping and NLOS mitigation, but packet-random or same-session validation may overstate generalizability.

Conclusion—No technology is universally superior. Selection should use output type, error percentiles, coverage, latency, update rate, device model, environment, maintenance, cybersecurity, privacy, and life-cycle cost, followed by a context-matched site pilot. Hybrid systems are preferable when continuity and reliability are more important than isolated laboratory accuracy.

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No institutional support was received for this study.

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Ethics committee approval was not required for this study.

Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

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Konular

Elektronik, Sensörler ve Dijital Donanım (Diğer)

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Erken Görünüm Tarihi

13 Eylül 2026

Yayımlanma Tarihi

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Gönderilme Tarihi

23 Temmuz 2026

Kabul Tarihi

31 Ağustos 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Sayı: Advanced Online Publication

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APA
Ekici, M. (2026). Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.65206/pajes.2001967
AMA
1.Ekici M. Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi. 2026;(Advanced Online Publication). doi:10.65206/pajes.2001967
Chicago
Ekici, Murat. 2026. “Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, sy Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.65206/pajes.2001967.
EndNote
Ekici M (01 Eylül 2026) Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi Advanced Online Publication
IEEE
[1]M. Ekici, “Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications”, Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, sy Advanced Online Publication, Eyl. 2026, doi: 10.65206/pajes.2001967.
ISNAD
Ekici, Murat. “Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi. Advanced Online Publication (01 Eylül 2026). https://doi.org/10.65206/pajes.2001967.
JAMA
1.Ekici M. Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi. 2026. doi:10.65206/pajes.2001967.
MLA
Ekici, Murat. “Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, sy Advanced Online Publication, Eylül 2026, doi:10.65206/pajes.2001967.
Vancouver
1.Murat Ekici. Indoor positioning with wireless technologies: Measurement methods, artificial intelligence, and applications. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi. 01 Eylül 2026;(Advanced Online Publication). doi:10.65206/pajes.2001967