Research Article

Smart Behavioral Analytics over a Low-Cost IoT Wi-Fi Tracking Real Deployment

Table 2

Summary of the state of the art of people flow monitoring techniques based on Wi-Fi tracking (P/A stands for Passive/Active).

RefYearScenarioApplicationP/AOwn deployment

[22]2003IndoorOne of the earliest approaches on precise positioning using Wi-Fi (precision 2.6m)AYes
[23]2006IndoorWi-Fi fingerprint to identify the general location and applying logistic regression to distinguish between finer-grained locations.AYes
[24]2006Indoor, office buildingPrecise positioning. PDR combined with Wi-Fi to reduce the accumulated errorAYes
[25]2007Outdoor and indoorCreation of Wi-Fi map. Positioning comparing with the created mapAYes. Own hardware. Offline analysis
[26]2007Indoor, campusComparison of positioning and tracking methods using Wi-FiPNo. Offline
[27]2008Indoor, campusEstimate the position using Wi-Fi and tracking with PDRAYes
[28]2009Indoor, campusReal time Wi-Fi positioning, web portal to check user's positionsAYes
[39]2009Indoor, campusCount of users in different buildings. Analysis of users' mobility between buildingsPNo. Institutional APs
[57]2010Indoor, campus and office buildingCoarse position with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Graph of user co-occurrence.ANo. Offline
[43]2010Indoor, campus and office buildingCalculate of stay length based on Wi-Fi positioning. Analysis of favorite locationsANo. Offline
[44]2011Indoor, campusExtension to [39]. User characterization based on their mobility patternsPNo. Institutional APs
[29]2011Indoor, tunnel in constructionPrecise positioning in real time of workers inside a constructing tunnel using Wi-Fi (precision 5m)PYes. Own AP deployment
[30]2012Indoor, campusCreation of Wi-Fi fingerprint map. Map usage to positioning with smartphone applicationANo
[36]2012Indoor, campusStudy of crowd movement Wi-Fi based. Analysis of mobility patterns, users' arrivals and departures from campusPNo. Institutional APs
[58]2013IndoorWi-Fi path analysis in real time.ANo. Institutional APs
[33]2014Indoor and outdoor, campusAnalyze pedestrian destination frequencies in an area of 55 hectares of a university campus during 5 weekdays.PNo. Institutional APs and Radius server
[59]2014Indoor, campusLocalization and tracking system exploiting particle filters to combine dead reckoning, Wi-Fi RSS-based analyzing and knowledge of floor plan together. (precision 0.7m)A
[60]2015Indoor, shopping mallWi-Fi Channel State Information analysis to detect shopper activitiesPYes. Own AP deployment
[31]2015IndoorPrecise positioning based on sensor fusion combining Wi-Fi, PDR and landmarks. Smartphone application. (Positioning 1m)ANo. Smartphones
[32]2015Indoor, parkingPrecise positioning combining Wi-Fi RSS and electromagnetic field map
[37]2015Outdoor, concert. Indoor, campusPortable Wi-Fi based user count. Analysis of crowds in concert and in campusPYes. Raspberry Pi based
[61]2015OutdoorCreation of Wi-Fi map using GPSA
[62]2016IndoorPrecise positioning combining Wi-Fi and PDRANo. Smartphones
[34]2016Indoor, airportUser path detection. Combining Wi-Fi, GPS, PDR and Bluetooth to create a multilevel map and study of user's trajectory predictionANo. Smartphones
[45]2016Indoor, campusAnalysis of users' activities. User tagging based on activities registeredPNo. Institutional APs
[46]2016Indoor and outdoor, campusAnalysis of user movements to different food points to predict the operation of new stores based on price and locationPNo. Institutional APs
[63]2017IndoorCrowdsourcing positioning based on Wi-Fi fingerprintANo. Institutional APs
[41]2018IndoorCoarse positioning, room level precision, based on probabilistic Wi-Fi fingerprint. Usage of Hidden Markov chain models to analyze user movement.PNo. Institutional APs
[35]2016IndoorTrajectory analysis based on Hidden Markov chain modelsPNo. Institutional APs
[42]2017IndoorEstimate the number of participants and their space and time evolution in an area of about 167 hectares during 2016 Open Day of the European JRCPNo. Institutional APs
[47]2016Indoor
Outdoor
Study mobility-related activities in a campus of 440 hectares based on the 2700 APs of the institutional network and additional opt-in smartphone applicationANo. Institutional APs
[53]2014IndoorClassify users in a hospital (e.g., patient, doctor, administrative) by checking the number of hours and the positions of a user over time based on the institutional Wi-Fi networkPNo. Institutional APs
[38]2012IndoorIdentify flocks walking in a building and their behavior based on signal strength from the institutional Wi-Fi and using clustering techniquesPNo. Institutional APs
[45]2016IndoorAnalyze users’ occupation (based on Markov models) as well as regular and irregular hours in a university campusPNo. Institutional APs
[40]2016IndoorAnalyze room utilization and people tracking providing heat maps. Analyze device statisticsANo. Institutional APs
[48]2017Indoor
Outdoor
Analyze people mobility monitoring and tracking in Smart Cities and traffic in a highway (e.g., driving behavior, traffic forecasting)PYes. Raspberry Pi based
[49]2018Indoor
Outdoor
Provide user localization, user profiling, and device classificationAYes. Raspberry Pi based
[54]2005Indoor
Outdoor
Analyze Wi-Fi tracking records gathered during more than one year in Madeira to classify users as tourists or locals and identify touristic spotsPYes. Based on TP-Link MR3240v2 home router
[56]2017IndoorObtain semantic trajectories. Classify users based on their locations. Analyze the probability of a user going to a specific shop based on their history and propose the creation of a recommender based on the whole dataset--