AUGMENTED REALITY BASED INDOOR POSITIONING NAVIGATION TOOL.

Nowadays, indoor navigation gained people’s attention. Lots of techniques and technologies have been used in order to develop the indoor navigation. Indoor navigation is far away behind the outdoor navigation. For outdoor navigation, we have GPS to guide and give direction to the desired place. Unfortunately, it is restricted for the outdoor purpose only. Thus, the main objective of this project is to develop an interactive indoor navigation system and augmented reality is being use to superimposed the directional signage. In this project small computer which is Raspberry Pi has been used as a computing device. Probably in the future, all smartphones will have augmented reality based indoor navigation tools because it already equipped with many sensors such as an accelerometer, gyro, and compass which will improve the accuracy of positioning. Basically, the project has been tested at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS’s Information Resource Centre (IRC), and it has shown its flexibility in working as an indoor positioning tool to navigate to 5 different locations with multiple levels.