Abstract: Many indoor positioning systems have been presented to solve the indoor positioning problem. The accuracy evaluation of these systems utilized either static or dynamic method; however, these two methods have their advantages and disadvantages. This paper presents an accuracy evaluation approach to measure the positioning uncertainty which combines static and dynamic method complementarily. The key step in the novel method is setting up a high accurate ground truth positioning system as a reference. The experiment by using the novel approach in assessing a smartphone WiFi/PDR fusion indoor positioning system showed that the new approach can conduct evaluation effectively and obtain enough measurement information for accuracy evaluation.

Key words: indoor positioning, accuracy evaluation, error analysis, static and dynamic context, ground truth reference system