Poster: Energy Efficient Navigation Systems

The sudden growth in the smart-phone industry in recent years has caught the localization technology quite unprepared, with GPS coming out as a trivial solution. Using GPS, although quite effective, results in high energy consumption. This makes way for the several inertial sensors present in smart-phones like accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, etc. There are number of works like UnLoc[3] which use these inertial sensors for pedestrian localization. Looking into outdoor vehicular localization, Dejavu[1] is one of the good solutions. In our research problems we plan to make use of inertial sensors to develop energy efficient navigation systems and the underlying infrastructure required for the same. Here, we present a novel generalized energy-efficient outdoor navigation scheme - UrbanEye[2]