Technical Limitations of GNSS Receivers in Indoor Positioning

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of aspects that have to be taken into account in use of GNSS receivers for positioning in the difficult environment, for example indoors. The performing position determination and navigation tasks in such environments come nowadays more and more in the focus of the GNSS community. The GNSS signal indoor reception is affected by strong attenuation and due to the nature of the environment by strong multipath. The paper discusses both of them and their possible impact to the navigation tasks. The effect of the user movement is discussed and the experimental measurements are presented. The measurements were realized with use of experimental GNSS software receiver, described in the paper as well.