Cuckoo Search-based SVM (CS-SVM) Model for Real-Time Indoor Position Estimation in IoT Networks

Internet of Things (IoT), an emerging technology, is becoming an essential part of today’s world. Machine learning (ML) algorithms play an important role in various applications of IoT. For decades, the location information has been extremely useful for humans to navigate both in outdoor and indoor environments. Wi-Fi access point-based indoor positioning systems get more popularity, as it avoids extra calibration expenses. The fingerprinting technique is preferred in an indoor environment as it does not require a signal’s Line of Sight (LoS). It consists of two phases: offline and online phase. In the offline phase, the Wi-Fi RSSI radio map of the site is stored in a database, and in the online phase, the object is localized using the offline database. To avoid the radio map construction which is expensive in terms of labor, time, and cost, machine learning techniques may be used. In this research work, we proposed a hybrid technique using Cuckoo Search-based Support Vector Machine (CS-SVM) for real-time position estimation. Cuckoo search is a nature-inspired optimization algorithm, which solves the problem of slow convergence rate and local minima of other similar algorithms. Wi-Fi RSSI fingerprint dataset of UCI repository having seven classes is used for simulation purposes. The dataset is preprocessed by min-max normalization to increase accuracy and reduce computational speed. The proposed model is simulated using MATLAB and evaluated in terms of accuracy, precision, and recall with K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and support vector machine (SVM). Moreover, the simulation results show that the proposed model achieves high accuracy of 99.87%.