Providing Databases for Different Indoor Positioning Technologies: Pros and Cons of Magnetic Field and Wi-Fi Based Positioning

Table 3

Mean positioning error for magnetic field based discrete and continuous methods in the 11 testing paths.

Path	Discrete method		Continuous method
	# of samples	Error	# of samples	Error
1	540	8.8 ± 0.18	35	8.74 ± 0.68
2	356	7.1 ± 0.21	21	7.44 ± 0.89
3	876	7.8 ± 0.14	44	7.89 ± 0.62
4	859	7.81 ± 0.14	41	7.21 ± 0.69
5	362	6.11 ± 0.19	23	5.14 ± 0.69
6	224	7.5 ± 0.21	9	6.05 ± 1.52
7	211	7.72 ± 0.29	8	6.24 ± 1.51
8	246	9.26 ± 0.22	16	6.58 ± 0.88
9	196	3.33 ± 0.21	11	1.25 ± 0.34
10	223	7.46 ± 0.3	10	5.33 ± 1.36
11	287	6.65 ± 0.18	13	4.7 ± 0.81
Mean		7.23 ± 0.38		6.05 ± 0.43