Transforming Decoder-Only Transformers for Accurate WiFi-Telemetry Based Indoor Localization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15835v1
• Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 17:47:32 GMT
• Title: Transforming Decoder-Only Transformers for Accurate WiFi-Telemetry Based Indoor Localization
• Authors: Nayan Sanjay Bhatia, Katia Obraczka,
• Abstract summary: We present WiFiGPT, a Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) based system that is able to handle these variations.<n>Our method matches and often surpasses conventional approaches for multiple types of telemetry.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) based indoor positioning is a widely researched area for determining the position of devices within a wireless network. Accurate indoor location has numerous applications, such as asset tracking and indoor navigation. Despite advances in WiFi localization techniques -- in particular approaches that leverage WiFi telemetry -- their adoption in practice remains limited due to several factors including environmental changes that cause signal fading, multipath effects, interference, which, in turn, impact positioning accuracy. In addition, telemetry data differs depending on the WiFi device vendor, offering distinct features and formats; use case requirements can also vary widely. Currently, there is no unified model to handle all these variations effectively. In this paper, we present WiFiGPT, a Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) based system that is able to handle these variations while achieving high localization accuracy. Our experiments with WiFiGPT demonstrate that GPTs, in particular Large Language Models (LLMs), can effectively capture subtle spatial patterns in noisy wireless telemetry, making them reliable regressors. Compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, our method matches and often surpasses conventional approaches for multiple types of telemetry. Achieving sub-meter accuracy for RSSI and FTM and centimeter-level precision for CSI demonstrates the potential of LLM-based localisation to outperform specialized techniques, all without handcrafted signal processing or calibration.

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