Geo-Fencing in Wireless LANs with Camera for Location-Based Access Control

Abstract

This paper proposes a camera-based geo-fencing system for wireless local area networks (WLANs) which enables geo-location based wireless access control to intuitively manage the area where the WLANs are available. The proposed system leverages camera to localize WLAN users accurately and estimates the proximity of users to objects in the real world. Meanwhile, conventional geo-location based access control suffers from low accuracy of RSSI based localization. As an example of geo-location based access control, we execute a WLAN activation control which allows STAs to pre-activate WLAN and associates with access points (APs) so that the power consumption and time to obtain contents are reduced. Experimental results show the feasibility of camera-based geo-fencing.