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Comparable to Smart Home and Smart Device, Smart Navigation has become a necessity to travel through the congestion of the structure of either building or in the wild. The advancement in smartphone technology and the incorporation of many different precise sensors have made the Smartphone a unique choice for developing useful navigation apps. Many have taken the initiative to address this by developing mobile-based solutions. Here, a cloud-based smart traveller assistant is proposed that exploits user-generated position and elevation data collected from ubiquitous smartphone devices equipped with Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer and GPS sensors. The data can be collected by the pedestrians and the drivers, which are then automatically put into topological information. The platform and associated smart application allow travellers to create a map of a route and infrastructure with ease and share the information for others to follow. The cloud-based solution that does not cost travellers anything allows them to create, access, and follow any maps online and offline. The proposed solution consumes little battery power and can be used with low configured resources. The ability to create unknown, unreached or unrecognized rural/urban road maps, building structures, and the wild map with the help of volunteer traveller-generated data and share them with the greater community makes our solution unique and useful. The proposed crowdsourcing method of knowing the unknown would be an excellent support for travellers.
Here, we have proposed an application that provides a platform for trackers and regular persons. By using the smartphone sensors, the application removes any need for external computing requirements by any embedded systems for navigation purposes. The idea of using everyone's creation and opportunity to share among others as an open-source platform while maintaining the integrity of privacy of each user is the most significant advantage of this proposed system. Through this, it can rapidly develop all known and unknown locations all around the world. With this application, one group of people can create routes/maps where the other groups can take benefit of using them. This way, the proposed solution creates a crowdsourcing platform where human resources generate data of verified maps and route paths. The platform can engage people in building a robust navigation system. It can also help users to find desirable places in mega infrastructure easily provided by the authority. For adventure-minded people, it will be a great platform to create a path of newly explored places and share it with others so that anyone can explore these places easily. People can also personalize their frequently visited destination path to track them easily. The proposed system tries to cover the lacking of other apps that are already available for so long but have failed to provide map creation facilities for both indoor and outdoor locations.
In future, we will be creating a 3D view using a colour template in the GUI to enhance the user experience. With this, users can get information of variance in the height of the terrain they wish to go. The calorimeter template is still under development and will be provided for the application in later stages. Therefore, the user will also receive any readings of their biometric such as step count, a time duration, total distance travelled after the application is turned on, heartbeat during the travel etc.
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