The Shopping Mall Goods Explorer

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of mobile application for shopping mall directory. The Location Based Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) Mall Indoor Directory aims to provide information for customer to enhance their experience in the shopping mall. The features that were included in this proposed work are Wi-Fi based indoor Positioning System to locate customer’s current location, directions from current location to another location, shops’ information and map module. Current location of customers could be located using two or more access points that are in the range. Strongest signal will be compared to get accurate readings of the current location. Directions are provided from the current location using a search function to enable customers to search for shops they wish to visit. A simple directions statement will be provided to guide customers. Shops information such as shop names, categories, locations, descriptions and floor layout are also provided in this mobile application. Floor layouts are provided with multi-touch and scalable functions that enable customers to get the accurate readings of the map. Our main contribution here is providing technical details which may be used as a guide for students, developers, and researchers. As a second contribution, we have explained the current solutions for the indoor navigation problems.