Cross-platform Smartphone Positioning at Museums

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Auteurs principaux: Ferrato, Alessio, Gasparetti, Fabio, Limongelli, Carla, Mastandrea, Stefano, Sansonetti, Giuseppe, Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín
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Publié: 2025
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author Ferrato, Alessio
Gasparetti, Fabio
Limongelli, Carla
Mastandrea, Stefano
Sansonetti, Giuseppe
Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín
author_facet Ferrato, Alessio
Gasparetti, Fabio
Limongelli, Carla
Mastandrea, Stefano
Sansonetti, Giuseppe
Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín
contents Indoor Positioning Systems (IPSs) hold significant potential for enhancing visitor experiences in cultural heritage institutions. By enabling personalized navigation, efficient artifact organization, and better interaction with exhibits, IPSs can transform the modalities of how individuals engage with museums, galleries and libraries. However, these institutions face several challenges in implementing IPSs, including environmental constraints, technical limits, and limited experimentation. In other contexts, Received Signal Strength (RSS)-based approaches using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and WiFi have emerged as preferred solutions due to their non-invasive nature and minimal infrastructure requirements. Nevertheless, the lack of publicly available RSS datasets that specifically reflect museum environments presents a substantial barrier to developing and evaluating positioning algorithms designed for the intricate spatial characteristics typical of cultural heritage sites. To address this limitation, we present BAR, a novel RSS dataset collected in front of 90 artworks across 13 museum rooms using two different platforms, i.e., Android and iOS. Additionally, we provide an advanced position classification baseline taking advantage of a proximity-based method and $k$-NN algorithms. In our analysis, we discuss the results and offer suggestions for potential research directions.
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spellingShingle Cross-platform Smartphone Positioning at Museums
Ferrato, Alessio
Gasparetti, Fabio
Limongelli, Carla
Mastandrea, Stefano
Sansonetti, Giuseppe
Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
Indoor Positioning Systems (IPSs) hold significant potential for enhancing visitor experiences in cultural heritage institutions. By enabling personalized navigation, efficient artifact organization, and better interaction with exhibits, IPSs can transform the modalities of how individuals engage with museums, galleries and libraries. However, these institutions face several challenges in implementing IPSs, including environmental constraints, technical limits, and limited experimentation. In other contexts, Received Signal Strength (RSS)-based approaches using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and WiFi have emerged as preferred solutions due to their non-invasive nature and minimal infrastructure requirements. Nevertheless, the lack of publicly available RSS datasets that specifically reflect museum environments presents a substantial barrier to developing and evaluating positioning algorithms designed for the intricate spatial characteristics typical of cultural heritage sites. To address this limitation, we present BAR, a novel RSS dataset collected in front of 90 artworks across 13 museum rooms using two different platforms, i.e., Android and iOS. Additionally, we provide an advanced position classification baseline taking advantage of a proximity-based method and $k$-NN algorithms. In our analysis, we discuss the results and offer suggestions for potential research directions.
title Cross-platform Smartphone Positioning at Museums
topic Machine Learning
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01469