On 3rd October, the IPIN competition - the world championship of indoor localisation among 40 international research teams that study and work to improve the accuracy of indoor localisation systems - ended at the Institute of Science and Technologies of the CNR in Pisa. The main purpose of the competition is to evaluate the accuracy of current indoor localisation systems. During the challenge, teams tested their system along a path about 30 minutes long inside the CNR Research Area of Pisa, the biggest in Italy with about 123.000 square meters, which includes several multifloor buildings with staircases and lifts.
Indoor localisation systems will become common in different areas of everyday life, for example in order to localise people in an emergency building evacuation, or to find your way in a shopping mall or incomplex public buildings such as hospitals, airports or a courthouse. Inside homes, they will integrate wit home automation services by makingthem responsive to people's position inside the house.
The competition is associated with IPIN, (International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation), the reference conference in this field, which was held in Italy for the first time. The most
promising technologies and the best localisation systems have been showcased by about 250 international experts from academy and industry, who during the technical sessions have presented about 150 papers and
have discussed the most promising future indoor localisation systems.
IPIN competition: http://evaal.aaloa.org
IPIN conference: http://ipin-conference.org
Reference: Francesco Potortì
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