A Review of Indoor Localization Use Cases in the Built Environment

Gaining information about the location of a person or an object has become an important issue in the field of built environment as well as industries such as logistics, transportation, manufacturing and healthcare. Location-based services such as on-road navigation, transportation tracking and route monitoring are the motives for a need towards outdoor location detection. In indoor built environments, the importance of localization arises from its value for construction industry in a various range of applications. Detection of building occupancy for automation systems, tracking personnel and equipment for effective management of facilities, providing assets location in construction sites and supporting building emergency response operations are all within the scope of indoor localization. This research aims to validate the need for indoor localization in buildings and to provide a review of indoor localization use cases in the built environment together with the currently available technologies