KAILOS: Indoor Positioning Technology Stack
An introduction to Wi-Fi positioning, maps, radio maps and hybrid positioning.
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Explore the positioning research, technical concepts and product information behind KPT technology.
RESEARCH RECORD
KPT is backed by KAIST’s Intelligent Service Integration Lab (ISI Lab). These are the lab’s patents and papers in positioning and navigation — Wi-Fi fingerprinting and radio maps, sensor fusion, inertial and learning-based positioning, and indoor-outdoor navigation — the research foundation of KAILOS technology.
Sources: kailos.io, the ISI Lab publications page and Google Patents. Korean patents and papers are listed under their original titles.
PATENTS
Grouped by first filing year, newest first. Filings of the same invention in different patent offices are listed together.
주소 및 핑거프린트 연계 방법 및 연계 서버
라디오 맵 구축 방법
GIPS의 구축을 위한 크라우드소싱 방법
위치 정보 제공 방법 및 그 장치
무선랜 라디오맵 자동 구축 방법 및 시스템
건물 내 위치 기반 서비스 구현 방법, 저장 매체, 서버 및 전자 장치
정류소의 공용 디스플레이를 이용한 목적지 안내 방법 및 목적지 안내 시스템
와이파이 신호 맵 구축 장치 및 방법
주소 기반 신호 지문 구축 방법 및 구축 시스템
Device and method for making Wi-Fi radio map
무선측위기술을 이용한 선박 내 소병기 및 포탄 관리 시스템 및 그 방법
실내 내비게이션을 수행하는 위치 기반 서비스 시스템 및 방법
실내 내비게이션 및 위치 추정 시스템 및 방법
실내 내비게이션 및 실시간 패칭 시스템 및 방법
System and method for location-based service for navigating indoors
System and method for location-based service for navigating indoors
System and method for location-based service for navigating indoors
Wi Fi를 이용한 공공 교통 수단 내에 위치한 휴대 기기의 위치 추정 방법
AP 환경 변화에 적응 가능한 교통 수단 내 휴대 단말의 위치 추정 방법
위치 기반 모바일 응용 마켓 플레이스 시스템
Market place system for providing mobile application based location
위치 추정에 사용자 이동성을 활용하는 와이파이 라디오 맵 기반 실내 네비게이션 시스템 및 방법
길 안내 서비스 방법 및 상기 방법을 수행하는 내비게이션시스템
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles and conference papers in positioning and navigation, newest first. Papers listed on both source pages appear once.
이준해, 한동수
2026 한국정보과학회 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회
Sumin Ahn, Dongsoo Han
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, pp. 1–14
DOI 10.1109/tim.2025.3593609 (opens in a new tab)Omer Tariq, M. B. A. Dastagir, M. Bilal, Dongsoo Han
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(11), pp. 17153–17168
DOI 10.1109/jiot.2025.3538938 (opens in a new tab)Anh-Van Vu, Changmin Sung, Dongsoo Han
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2025), Vienna, Austria, pp. 5762–5769
DOI 10.1109/smc58881.2025.11342779 (opens in a new tab)Omer Tariq, Dongsoo Han
IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 18473–18487
DOI 10.1109/access.2024.3360883 (opens in a new tab)Omer Tariq, M. B. A. Dastagir, Dongsoo Han
Sensors, 24(16), 5125
DOI 10.3390/s24165125 (opens in a new tab)M. B. A. Dastagir, Omer Tariq, Dongsoo Han
IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 102505–102520
DOI 10.1109/access.2024.3427825 (opens in a new tab)Omer Tariq, M. Bilal, Dongsoo Han
IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT 2024), Melbourne, Australia
DOI 10.1109/aiot63253.2024.00028 (opens in a new tab)Anh-Van Vu, Thanh-Minh Nguyen, Changmin Sung, Dongsoo Han
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2024), pp. 2599–2606
DOI 10.1109/smc54092.2024.10831327 (opens in a new tab)Donghyun Kim, Kyuho Son, Dongsoo Han
Sensors, 22(19)
DOI 10.3390/s22197124 (opens in a new tab)Daekwon Ko, Minseok Kim, Kyuho Son, Dongsoo Han
IEEE Sensors Journal, 22(6), pp. 5238–5247
DOI 10.1109/jsen.2021.3127135 (opens in a new tab)Sumin Ahn, Dongsoo Han
IEEE 12th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2022), Beijing, China
DOI 10.1109/ipin54987.2022.9918106 (opens in a new tab)Anh-Van Vu, Dongsoo Han
IEEE 12th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2022), Beijing, China
DOI 10.1109/ipin54987.2022.9918103 (opens in a new tab)Changmin Sung, Dongsoo Han
IEEE 12th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2022), Beijing, China
DOI 10.1109/ipin54987.2022.9918157 (opens in a new tab)Muhammad Bilal Akram Dastagir, Omer Tariq, Dongsoo Han
12th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation — Work-in-Progress Papers (IPIN-WiP 2022), CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 3248, Beijing, China
Byeongcheol Moon, Dongsoo Han
IEEE 12th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2022), Beijing, China
DOI 10.1109/ipin54987.2022.9918143 (opens in a new tab)손규호, 한동수
2022 항법시스템학회 정기학술대회
문병철, 한동수
2022 항법시스템학회 정기학술대회
안수민, 한동수
2022 항법시스템학회 정기학술대회
Minseuk Kim, Dong-Soo Han, June-Koo Kevin Rhee
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(15)
DOI 10.1109/jiot.2021.3063512 (opens in a new tab)Minseuk Kim, Dong-Soo Han, June-Koo Kevin Rhee
IEEE Sensors Journal
DOI 10.1109/jsen.2021.3112994 (opens in a new tab)Sumin Ahn, Dong-Soo Han
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2021), online
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-90328-2_36 (opens in a new tab)김동현, 한동수, 손규호
제11회 국제과학관 심포지엄
Gunwoo Lee, Byeong-Cheol Moon, Sangjae Lee, Dongsoo Han
Sensors, 20(18)
DOI 10.3390/s20185182 (opens in a new tab)Sangjae Lee, SeungWoo Chae, Dong-Soo Han
IEEE Access, vol. 8
DOI 10.1109/access.2020.3029281 (opens in a new tab)Minseuk Kim, Dongsoo Han, June-Koo Kevin Rhee
IEEE Access, vol. 8
DOI 10.1109/access.2020.3029598 (opens in a new tab)Dongsoo Han, Ayesha Sahar, Joseph Berkner, Gunwoo Lee
IEEE Access, vol. 7
DOI 10.1109/access.2019.2929779 (opens in a new tab)이건우, 고대권, 김현, 한동수
한국ITS학회 논문지, 18(5)
Namkyoung Lee, Sumin Ahn, Dongsoo Han
Sensors, 18(5)
DOI 10.3390/s18051598 (opens in a new tab)Suk-Hoon Jung, Dongsoo Han
IEEE Access, vol. 6
DOI 10.1109/access.2017.2780243 (opens in a new tab)Suk-Hoon Jung, Gunwoo Lee, Dong-Soo Han
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48(6)
DOI 10.1109/tsmc.2016.2626797 (opens in a new tab)Ayesha Sahar, Dongsoo Han
2nd International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (ICVISP 2018), ACM
DOI 10.1145/3271553.3271566 (opens in a new tab)Changmin Sung, Seungwoo Chae, Daehyun Kang
2nd International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (ICVISP 2018), ACM
DOI 10.1145/3271553.3271582 (opens in a new tab)Jaewon Kim, Dongsoo Han
Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation
Hoon Shin, Gunwoo Lee, Dongsoo Han
2nd International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (ICVISP 2018), ACM
DOI 10.1145/3271553.3271614 (opens in a new tab)Byeongcheol Moon, Dongsoo Han
2nd International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (ICVISP 2018), ACM
DOI 10.1145/3271553.3271621 (opens in a new tab)Suk-Hoon Jung, ByeongCheol Moon, Dong-Soo Han
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 18(4)
DOI 10.1109/tits.2016.2594479 (opens in a new tab)Seokseong Jeon, Jae-Pil Jeong, Young-Joo Suh, Chansu Yu, Dongsoo Han
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 99
DOI 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.09.010 (opens in a new tab)Jeonghee Ahn, Dongsoo Han
Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation
DOI 10.1109/ipin.2017.8115872 (opens in a new tab)Seongsik Kim, Jaewon Kim, Dongsoo Han
Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation
Namkyoung Lee, Dongsoo Han
Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation
DOI 10.1109/ipin.2017.8115887 (opens in a new tab)Suk-Hoon Jung, Sangjae Lee, Dong-Soo Han
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 31, pp. 94–106
DOI 10.1016/j.pmcj.2016.02.002 (opens in a new tab)Inje Lee, Myungjae Kwak, Dong-Soo Han
Journal of Computer Information Systems, 56(4), pp. 295–300
DOI 10.1080/08874417.2016.1164000 (opens in a new tab)Dong-Soo Han, Suk-Hoon Jung, Sangjae Lee
ICT Express, 2(2), pp. 71–74
DOI 10.1016/j.icte.2016.04.002 (opens in a new tab)Suk-Hoon Jung, Byung-chul Moon, Dong-Soo Han
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 15(11)
DOI 10.1109/tmc.2015.2506585 (opens in a new tab)N. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Jung, B. Moon, J. Ahn, D. Han
URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (URSI AP-RASC), pp. 1669–1671
DOI 10.1109/ursiap-rasc.2016.7601172 (opens in a new tab)Namjun Park, Suk-Hoon Jung, Dong-Soo Han
ICT Express, 1(2)
DOI 10.1016/j.icte.2015.09.008 (opens in a new tab)Rakmin Sung, Suk-Hoon Jung, Dong-Soo Han
ICT Express, 1(3)
DOI 10.1016/j.icte.2016.02.001 (opens in a new tab)B. Moon, S. Jung, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
G. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Jung, S. Kim, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Lee, N. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Jung, B. Moon, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
G. Lee, S. Chae, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
H. Moon, W. Lee, K. Lee, D. Han
Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
T. Park, D. Han, S. Park, W. An, H. Kwon
Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
D. Han, S. Jung
Information and Communications Magazine
D Han
The Proceedings of KIEE
Dongsoo Han, Sukhoon Jung, Minkyu Lee, Giwan Yoon
IEEE Pervasive Computing, 13(2), pp. 72–79
DOI 10.1109/mprv.2014.24 (opens in a new tab)D. Han, B. Moon, G. Yoon
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
DOI 10.1109/ipin.2014.7275468 (opens in a new tab)K. Chang, D. Han
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information, pp. 24–31
DOI 10.1145/2676440.2676441 (opens in a new tab)S.S. Jeon, Y.J. Suh, C.S. Yu, D.S. Han
Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (MobiQuitous 2013), LNICST, Springer, pp. 129–141
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_11 (opens in a new tab)Dongsoo Han, Sangjae Lee, Gunwoo Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Taewoo Lee, Yuri Kim
International Conference on Future Web
Dongsoo Han, Sangjae Lee, Sunghoon Kim
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
DOI 10.1109/ipin.2014.7275535 (opens in a new tab)G. Lee, D. Han
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
DOI 10.1109/ipin.2014.7275562 (opens in a new tab)Choonoh Lee, Gi-Wan Yoon, Dong-Soo Han
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 12(5)
DOI 10.1109/tmc.2012.64 (opens in a new tab)Jun-Sung Lim, Woo-Hyuk Jang, Giwan Yoon, Dongsoo Han
IEEE Communications Letters, 17(4)
DOI 10.1109/lcomm.2013.022213.122885 (opens in a new tab)S. Kim, T. Lee, K. Jang
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
B. Moon, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Rak, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Lee, K. Yoon, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
K. Jang, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Kim, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Bak, S. Jeon, Y. Suh, C. Yu, D. Han
Fourth International Conference on the Network of the Future (NoF’13)
DOI 10.1109/nof.2013.6724506 (opens in a new tab)S. Bak, S. Jeon, Y. Suh, C. Yu, D. Han
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2013)
MK Lee, Dongsoo Han
Electronics Letters, 48(11)
DOI 10.1049/el.2011.4039 (opens in a new tab)Min-Kyu Lee, Dong-Soo Han
IEEE Communications Letters, 16(3), pp. 404–407
DOI 10.1109/lcomm.2012.020212.111992 (opens in a new tab)S. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
J. Lim, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
R. Sung, M. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
B. Moon, C. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
S. Jung, C. Lee, D. Han
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
C. Lee, G. Yoon, D. Han
1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems
DOI 10.1145/2442810.2442826 (opens in a new tab)Minkyu Lee, Suk Hoon Jung, Dongsoo Han
12th International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2012)
DOI 10.1109/saint.2012.35 (opens in a new tab)S. Lee, S.H. Jung, D. Han
1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems
DOI 10.1145/2442810.2442825 (opens in a new tab)J Shin, S.H. Jung, Giwan Yoon, Dongsoo Han
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 90, pp. 135–147
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1192-1_12 (opens in a new tab)Hyunil Yang, Giwan Yoon, Dongsoo Han
IEEE MTT-S IMWS-IRFPT 2011, Daejeon, pp. 89–90
DOI 10.1109/imws2.2011.6027200 (opens in a new tab)Inje Lee, Giwan Yoon, Dongsoo Han
IEEE MTT-S IMWS-IRFPT 2011, Daejeon, pp. 51–52
Sukhoon Jung, Choon-oh Lee, Dongsoo Han
IEEE MTT-S IMWS-IRFPT 2011, Daejeon, pp. 62–63
장래영, 이민규, 조준희, 한동수
정보과학회논문지: 컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터, 16(7), pp. 814–818
Minkyu Lee, Hyunil Yang, Dongsoo Han, Chansu Yu
1st IEEE PerCom Workshop on Smart Environments (SmartE 2010), Mannheim, Germany
Choonoh Lee, Minkyu Lee, Dongsoo Han
10th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2010), Seoul
DOI 10.1109/saint.2010.30 (opens in a new tab)Jikang Shin, Dongsoo Han
International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2010), pp. 768–773
Dongsoo Han, Minkyu Lee, Laeyoung Chang, Hyunil Yang
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010)
TECHNOLOGY NOTE
An introduction to Wi-Fi positioning, maps, radio maps and hybrid positioning.
Read the noteHow the KAILOS technology lineage expanded from indoor positioning toward integrated navigation.
Read the noteWhy GNSS, inertial sensors, Wi-Fi and environmental sensing complement one another.
Read the noteA plain-language explanation of indoor-outdoor transition detection.
Read the noteVIDEOS
See KAILOS and KTAG in action, and news reports on the technology.
KTAG positioning, from the KAILOS demonstration video.
KAILOS indoor positioning in a shopping mall, seen on the phone screen.
KAILOS indoor positioning at COEX in Seoul.
PRODUCT DOCUMENTS
Build indoor maps and radio maps with the KAILOS tools, then develop location-based services with the KAILOS API.
Read the manualTechnical overviews for KTAG, KTAG Pro and the KAILOS Neural Engine are shared directly by our team during evaluation.