A method, apparatus, and terminal for obtaining a route are provided, including techniques and related apparatus for: obtaining, by a terminal, a first moment at which a signal in the terminal disappears and first location information of the terminal at the first moment, and performing dead reckoning starting from the first moment; obtaining, by the terminal, a second moment at which a user sends a distress signal and second location information of the terminal at the second moment, and ending the dead reckoning, to obtain a first dead reckoning curve; and determining, by the terminal, a track of a traveled route based on the first moment, the second moment, the second location information, the first dead reckoning curve, and each moment between the first moment and the second moment.

Recent decades have brought tremendous advances in communication systems which have given rise to the global proliferation of smartphones and other mobile communication systems. A signal processing system implements technical solutions for determining building footprints from inputs including signal data associated with mobile communication devices.

Recent decades have brought tremendous advances in communication systems which have given rise to the global proliferation of smartphones and other mobile communication systems. A signal processing system implements technical solutions for determining building footprints from inputs including signal data associated with mobile communication devices.

A method for switching a base station, a mower and a multi-base station working system are provided. The method includes: obtaining, when the number of first common-view satellites between the mower and a first base station is less than a first threshold, the number of second common-view satellites between the mower and a second base station; when the number of the first common-view satellites is less than a second threshold and the number of the second common-view satellites is greater than the second threshold, obtaining the first trajectory of the mower based on the first base station and the second trajectory of the mower based on the second base station; determining, based on the first and second trajectories, a coordinate transformation matrix; and switching from the first base station to the second base station based on the coordinate transformation matrix, the second threshold being less than the first threshold.

A method, implemented by a computer, for determining a position of a personal mobility device (PMD) comprises: estimating a position of a PMD based on a first wireless signal; determining whether the PMD is within an intermediate area between a first area and a second area, based on an estimated position of the PMD; determining whether the PMD moves to the second area, by using both the first wireless signal and a second wireless signal; and determining position of the PMD by using any one of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal based on a movement of the PMD to the second area.

A tunnel detection system for a motor vehicle comprises a radiofrequency signal receiver provided to receive a radiofrequency signal coming from a source external to the vehicle; a controller communicating with the radiofrequency signal receiver, the controller being configured to detect at least one amplitude variation in the radiofrequency signal received by the receiver; the controller is configured to determine at least one correspondence level representative of the difference between the detected amplitude variation in the radiofrequency signal and at least one predetermined reference signal amplitude variation representative of the amplitude variation in a signal received by the receiver when the receiver travels into a tunnel; the controller is configured to compare the determined correspondence level with a predetermined minimum correspondence threshold, and detect the tunnel being travelled through by the detection system when the determined correspondence level is greater than or equal to the predetermined minimum correspondence threshold.

The present invention discloses, inter alia, a computerized system for building a multisensory location map, the system comprising an interface for receiving multiple multisensory data vectors acquired by multiple mobile devices at multiple locations and accelerometer readings obtained upon movement of at least one device carried by at least one user between the multiple locations; at least a portion of said movement being walking; at least a majority of the multiple locations are located within an area in which an accuracy of global positioning system (GPS) based navigation is below an allowable threshold; and a processor, interconnected with said interface, with accelerometers, a magnetometer and a map calculator, configured for: extracting, out of accelerometer readings, accelerometer information related to multiple walking phases of the walking; for at least two of said multiple walking phases, real-time correcting a currently measured Z vector, and a pitch angle and a roll angle thereof, thereby compensating for horizontal accelerations, thereby obtaining a Z vector pointing toward Earth's center; calculating, from said Z vector pointing toward earth's center, a surface parallel to Earth's face (perpendicular to said Z vector pointing toward earth's center); estimating, from said surface parallel to Earth's face and from a magnetic north measured by at least one built-in magnetometer in said at least one device, an offset selected from a group consisting of: an azimuth offset from magnetic north and a heading offset from geometric north; processing the accelerometer information related to said at least two of said multiple walking phases to determine a direction of propagation of the at least one user and correcting said direction of propagation based on said offset; and estimating, from said corrected direction of propagation, at least one location of said at least one user; and the map calculator calculating, in response to the multiple multisensory data vectors and said at least one estimated location, a location fingerprinting map that comprises multiple grid points; each of the multiple grid points comprising a multisensory grid point fingerprint and grid point location information derivable from said at least one estimated location.

A method and system for localizing a mobile device having a processor and a memory. The method comprises, using the processor, localizing the mobile device during navigation of a sequence of positions along an indoor area based on a data fusion of fingerprint data, detecting, using the processor, a boundary of a trusted-global positioning system (trusted-GPS) positioning region within the indoor area, and upon navigating to the boundary, localizing the mobile device based on GPS position data acquired at the memory of the mobile device.

Systems and methods to position beacons at traffic choke points, use a mobile device to detect the peaks of beacon signals corresponding to the mobile device traveling through the traffic choke points, and thus determine accurately the position and speed of the mobile device in the transport corridor between the choke points. The determined position and speed of the mobile device can be used to improve the performance of other location determination technologies, such as radio frequency fingerprint-based location estimate and/or inertial guidance location estimate.

A computerized method for building a multisensory location map, the method may include: receiving, by an interface, multiple multisensory data vectors acquired by multiple mobile devices at multiple locations and location estimates indicative of the multiple locations; wherein at least a majority of the multiple locations are located within an area in which a granularity of global positioning system (GPS) based navigation is below an allowable threshold; wherein the location estimates are at least partially generated by internal navigation systems of the multiple mobile devices; and calculating, by a map calculator, in response to the multiple multisensory data vectors and the location estimates, a location fingerprinting map that comprises multiple grid points, wherein each grid point comprises a multisensory grid point fingerprint and grid point location information.