1. Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition
36 submissions from 32 teams
21 teams with 22 systems eventually participated
Academia, Industry, Startups
Submissions were classified into two categories
Infrastructure-free (9 teams)
No hardware deployment
WiFi and sensors (accelerometer, gyro, etc.)
Infrastructure-based (13 teams)
Custom hardware deployment (magnetic, custom RF, light-based, etc.)

2. Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition
2-day event
Day 1: Sunday
Teams were given 7 hours to setup and calibrate their systems
Day 2: Monday
Each team was asked to provide the coordinates of 20 test points
Test points’ coordinates were manually measured using laser range finders
Evaluation Metric
Average localization error across the 20 test points

4. Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition

5. Infrastructure Free Infrastructure Based
MapUme
Martin Klepal and Christian Beder
(Cork University of Technology)
1.6m error
EasyPoint
Arne Bestmann, Ronne Reimann
(Lamda:4 Entwicklungen GmbH)
0.7m error
1st
$1000
Accurate Multi-Sensor Localization on Android
C. Laoudias, G. Larkou, C. Li, Y.-K. Tsai, D. Zeinalipour-Yazti, C. G. Panayiotou
(University of Cyprus)
2m error
Visible Light Localization
L. Li, C. Zhao, J. Shen, F. Zhao
(Microsoft Research)
2m error
2nd
$500
WiFi-based Indoor Localization
H. Zou, H. Jiang, L. Xie
(Nanyang Technological University)
2.2m error
FUBLoc
S. Adler, S. Schmitt, Y. Yang, Y. Zhao, M. Kyas
(Freie Universitat Berlin)
2m error
3rd
$300
An Indoor Location Solution for Mobile Devices
A. S. Ferraz, A. G. Alvino, L. Q. L. Martins, P. A. Bello (Ubee S.A.)
2.8m error
ALPS: An Ultrasonic Localization System
P. Lazik, N. Rajagopal, B. Sinopoli, A. Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University)
2.1m error
4th
$200

6. Automated Evaluation Process
Competitor
Manual
Automated
EasyPoint
0.72 m
0.72 m [20 points]
MapUme
1.56 m
1.71 m [18 points]

7. Evaluation point impact

8. Room without the origin point Room containing the origin point Hallway
Furniture was rearranged between setup and evaluation
Room containing the origin point
Furniture remained the same between setup and evaluation
Hallway

9. A huge THANKS to
Jie Liu
Vlado Handziski
Filip Lemic
Jasper Buesch