Selection and Aggregation of Location Information Provisioning Services

Aggregation of location estimates from multiple services for provisioning of location information enhances the accuracy and robustness of the final location information. Recent Internet of Things (IoT)-based localization service architectures therefore envision a "manager" for selecting and invoking provisioning services and, in the later step, aggregating the received information and providing it to location-based applications. The selection of provisioning services should take into account the accuracy and latency requirements from the applications and accuracy, latency, and power consumption characteristics of provisioning services. However, it is yet unclear how such selection should be made. We propose two algorithms for the selection of provisioning services aiming at meeting latency and subsequently accuracy requirements from the applications, one subject to minimizing per-request power consumption, while the other subject to a per-time bucket power minimization. In the considered examples, we show that the per-time bucket optimization achieves around 25% better performance in terms of power consumption, while trading-off accuracy satisfaction.