INDOOR NAVIGATION USING AR TECHNOLOGY
Pradeep Kumar G H, N Akhila, R Aravind, P Mohith · International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology · 2020
Navigation systems have been widely used in outdoor environments, but indoor navigation systems are still in early development stages.The current available systems make use of GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID and Sensor Chip technologies.The Bluetooth technology is cheap but has limited range and accuracy.For an effective location tracking and navigation using this technology, we need to setup Bluetooth hotspots across the building.The same is applicable for other technologies like Wi-Fi, RFID and Sensor chips.The implementation and maintenance cost is exorbitant for all these methods and a change in weather condition may affect the signal strength downing the hotspot if any one device fails.In all such existing systems, additional infrastructural facilities are inevitable for the perfect working of it.In this work, we put forward a low cost, simple, reliable and efficient method to accomplish the same goal by introducing an augmented reality-based indoor navigation application to assist people navigate in indoor environments.