Integration of indoor localization with facility maintenance management

This paper proposes an architecture for integration of indoor localization systems and decision support systems and/or manufacturing executive systems. In this paper, an indoor localization integration architecture is introduced under the scenario of an intelligent building localization system to uncover the relations among the necessary components and functions. Implementation details are also thoroughly explored, including class diagrams, work flows and the interface of the key component. The proposed architecture has the advantages of scalability and reconfigurability. In this architecture, different types of wireless sensors technologies including WiFi, ZigBee and RFID can be integrated simultaneously to support “smart environments”. Information from different data sources is transparent to information consumers (application systems), which means they can track “real” time position information of the interested assets in spite of the data sources. An application has been designed and implemented with the proposed architecture.