Indoor Navigation without Beacons

Question

currently i'am working on a university project where i want to create a smartphone indoor navigation solution without beacons. Is there any possible way of combining the map of the area with sensors of the smartphone to get a good accuracy? When I did research the most of the solutions rely on BLE Beacons, some on other technologies.

I only saw one company called mapsted which just rely on their algorithm. But i cannot mind how this should work. Like i thought indoor positioning always need something (e.g. beacon) to determine the smartphones location via triangulation.

If anyone has some thoughts on this topic, thank you :)

Answer 1

I am also working on Indoor Positioning without Beacons but don't have any idea to plot it on Map or floorplan. If you get any solution just let me know. You can search out about the openstreetmaps , Mapbox and openlayers where u can create indoor map and use it for ploting.

Answer 2

Use GeoJson and Openlayers to create your indoor map in openstreetmaps so that you get the coordinates and you can plot person with the help of coordinates.

You can use turf.js which help you for geofencing and other functionality.