Multi-Platform Architecture for Cooperative Pedestrian Navigation Applications

As the location-based services market is growing, the plethora of navigation applications is strongly increasing. The solutions are made for single purposes and platforms. And the communication and information exchange in between, for example, pedestrian navigation applications from different solution providers, remain non-existent. To fill this gap, we developed a software architecture. The architecture abstraction enables easy and modular replacement of map, object, method, user, communications and sensor implementations between applications for many navigation purposes and technology platforms. The prototype design was tested using inertial, GNSS and UWB technologies on a MATLAB environment using multiple users, methods and sensors.