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The proposed algorithm is based on traditional location fingerprinting algorithms and consists of two stages: the offline acquisition and the online positioning.  The offline acquisition process selects optimal parameters to complete the signal acquisition, and it forms a database of fingerprints by error classification and handling. To further improve the accuracy of positioning, the online positioning process first uses a pre-match method to select the candidate fingerprints to shorten the positioning time. After that, it uses the improved Euclidean distance and the improved joint probability to calculate two intermediate results, and further calculates the final result from these two intermediate results by weighted fusion. The improved Euclidean distance introduces the standard deviation of WiFi signal strength to smooth the WiFi signal fluctuation and the improved joint probability introduces the logarithmic calculation to reduce the difference between probability values. Comparing the proposed algorithm, the Euclidean distance based WKNN algorithm and the joint probability algorithm, the experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm has higher positioning accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s150921824","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,1]],"date-time":"2015-09-01T10:55:58Z","timestamp":1441104958000},"page":"21824-21843","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":107,"title":["An Improved WiFi Indoor Positioning Algorithm  by Weighted Fusion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Rui","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Changzhen","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Jingfeng","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1067","DOI":"10.1109\/TSMCC.2007.905750","article-title":"Survey of Wireless Indoor Positioning Techniques and Systems","volume":"37","author":"Hui","year":"2007","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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