YU Research Team Accelerates Commercialization of Indoor Navigation! N
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Department of Information and Communication Engineering Professor Park Yong-wan’s research team wins two awards at ‘IPIN 2017’ and ‘Best Poster Paper Award’
Received attention for demonstration of ‘new conceptual flank technology of smartphone-based indoor location system’
High utilization expected for general public and industries if performance is improved and becomes more compact
[October 18, 2017]
Received attention for demonstration of ‘new conceptual flank technology of smartphone-based indoor location system’
High utilization expected for general public and industries if performance is improved and becomes more compact
[October 18, 2017]
<Department of Information and Communication Engineering Professor Park Yong-wan’s research team prseented platform technologies that can commercialize indoor navigation at the ‘IPIN 2017’ held at Hokkaido University in Japan and is receiving attention from academic circles.>
(From bottom left, Professor Heo Su-jeong, Sohn Hee-dong, Jung Seung-gu, from top left, Lee Chan-seok, Muhammad Usman Ali, Professor Park Yong-wan, Cho Young-rae, Kang Min-gyu)
(From bottom left, Professor Heo Su-jeong, Sohn Hee-dong, Jung Seung-gu, from top left, Lee Chan-seok, Muhammad Usman Ali, Professor Park Yong-wan, Cho Young-rae, Kang Min-gyu)
A research team of YU presented platform technologies that can commercialize indoor navigation, and is thus receiving attention from academic circles.
At the ‘8th IPIN (Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, hereinafter ’IPIN 2017’ held at Hokkaido University in Japan from September 16 to 2, the research team from YU received the ‘Best Poster Paper Award’ and was the ‘runner-up’ in the competition.
The winner of the award was Department of Information and Communication Engineering Professor Park Yong-wan (57), ICT-based Smart Device Creative Talent Fostering Project Team Research Professor Heo Su-jeong (40), and Graduate School of Information and Communication Engineering students Muhammad Usman Ali (38, received PhD), Sohn Hee-dong (26, first time in master’s program), Kang Min-gyu (26, first time in master’s program), and undergraduate seniors Jung Seung-gu (25), Cho Young-rae (25) and Lee Chan-seok (25).
‘IPIN’ is the world’s only international conference joined by over 370 indoor positioning and navigation experts from approximately 40 countries around the world. Academic conferences and contests are held every year with the sponsorship of IEEE Computer Society that posses the highest number of organizations and members among the academic societies of the US IEEE.
A total of 219 theses were submitted in the communication and computer sectors at the IPIN 2017 conference, and 165 papers were selected and presented. Professor Park Yong-wan’s research team received the honor of the ‘best poster paper award’ for 2017. In the IPIN 2017 competition, a total of 28 teams joined in a total of four tracks, and the YU research team was runner-up in track 1.
The topic of Professor Park’s team was ‘Indoor Positioning Flak System using RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) Based Route Loss Model Map’. The research team proposed a path generation algorithm for pedestrians to easily find their way by accurately and quickly providing the current location as there has been a rapid increase in demand for indoor positioning services due to the development of smart devices.
At the contest, a mission was given to walk along a 1km path for approximately 10 minutes going up and down the first and second floors of a building at Hokkaido University, and judges evaluated the accuracy of locations.
The research team stated, “We developed a real-time indoor navigation system using the overlapping method of the RSSI mpa of the database and the RSSI value obtained by the smartphone.” The team added, “We received a great deal of attention as we have come to the stage right before systemization and commercialization by applying in various applications such as smartphones based on indoor flank research.”
Recently, buildings are becoming massive as seen in many skyscrapers and shopping complexes, and underground spaces are also expanding due to the development of subways. Indoor navigation is judged to be a core technology of the future as it will be highly useful, and therefore, Professor Park’s research team’s research findings are receiving a great deal of attention.
The research team joyfully said, “We were able to receive this award by paying attention to the vision of indoor positioning flanks and the roles of information and communication technologies and proceeded with research diligently since 2007.” They added, “The technology that we proposed is not applied only for indoor positioning. If technologies can be integrated to improve performance and gain more portability, its application can be expanded to technologies that help with new marketing strategies such as for shopping malls and exhibitions.”