Institute of New Imaging Technologies, Universitat Jaume I, Avda. Vicente Sos Baynat S/N, 12071 Castellón, Spain.
Sensors (Basel). 2019 Oct 17;19(20):4507. doi: 10.3390/s19204507.
An accurate and reliable Indoor Positioning System (IPS) applicable to most indoor scenarios has been sought for many years. The number of technologies, techniques, and approaches in general used in IPS proposals is remarkable. Such diversity, coupled with the lack of strict and verifiable evaluations, leads to difficulties for appreciating the true value of most proposals. This paper provides a meta-review that performed a comprehensive compilation of 62 survey papers in the area of indoor positioning. The paper provides the reader with an introduction to IPS and the different technologies, techniques, and some methods commonly employed. The introduction is supported by consensus found in the selected surveys and referenced using them. Thus, the meta-review allows the reader to inspect the IPS current state at a glance and serve as a guide for the reader to easily find further details on each technology used in IPS. The analyses of the meta-review contributed with insights on the abundance and academic significance of published IPS proposals using the criterion of the number of citations. Moreover, 75 works are identified as relevant works in the research topic from a selection of about 4000 works cited in the analyzed surveys.
多年来，人们一直在寻找适用于大多数室内场景的准确可靠的室内定位系统（IPS）。一般来说，IPS 提案中使用的技术、技巧和方法的数量是相当可观的。这种多样性，再加上缺乏严格和可验证的评估，使得大多数提案的真正价值难以被欣赏。本文提供了一个元综述，对室内定位领域的 62 篇调查论文进行了全面汇编。本文为读者提供了 IPS 以及常用的不同技术、技巧和一些方法的介绍。该介绍得到了所选调查中的共识的支持，并引用了这些共识。因此，元综述允许读者一目了然地检查 IPS 的当前状态，并作为读者的指南，方便地找到 IPS 中使用的每种技术的详细信息。使用引文数量的标准，对元综述的分析有助于洞察已发表 IPS 提案的丰富性和学术意义。此外，从分析的调查中引用的大约 4000 篇作品中，确定了 75 篇作为研究主题的相关作品。
