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IoT Position Application for In-home Robots

Amazon Lab126 is an American research and development and computer hardware company owned by Amazon.com. It was founded in 2004 by Gregg Zehr, previously Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Palm, and is based in Sunnyvale, California. With home robots (such as iRobot Roomba or Amazon Astro) becoming more commonplace in our households, there is potential to utilize their mobility and connectivity to solve problems in IoT localization. This enables use-cases such as finding lost devices and performing location-based actions on IoT devices. The main aim of the project is to predict the location of the IoT device using RSSI values that would be collected earlier during the radio map construction and route the robot to that location via the best possible route. This student team worked to develop a IoT localization algorithm that can locate an IoT device and reach to it via best route within an accuracy of +-10 cm. Moreover, the algorithm had to be generalizable to different homes and environments.