Unsupervised WiFi-Enabled IoT Device-User Association for Personalized Location-Based Service

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A fundamental building block towards personalized location-based service and context-aware service in smart buildings is the knowledge about the identity and mobility of users in indoor environments. Conventional user identification systems require the deployment of dedicated infrastructure or the active user involvement. Motivated by the widespread usage of the WiFi-enabled mobile device (MD), e.g., people usually carry at least one MD in their daily lives, in this paper, we propose WinDUA, a WiFi-enabled non-intrusive device and user association scheme to infer user identity and mobility via a novel unsupervised association learning algorithm. Firstly, we utilize our WiFi-based indoor positioning system to obtain the historical location data of each MD using only existing WiFi infrastructure in a non-intrusive manner. Then, we classify all the MDs into two categories, static device (SD) and mobile phone (MP), according to their location variations and overnight presences. Subsequently, we estimate the correct mapping between each SD and its user through hierarchical clustering and location similarity matching between its location and user’s personal space. Finally, we make possible pairs of MP and SD according to their duration of coexistence as well as the historical location similarity to associate the owner of each MP. Real-world experiments are conducted in an office, verifying that WinDUA is able to associate the MD to the correct users in a non-intrusive and unsupervised manner.
Funding Information
  • 2018 Seed Fund Award from CITRIS
  • University of California

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