Hierarchical Wi-Fi Trajectory Embedding for Indoor User Mobility Pattern Analysis

Abstract

The recent advances in smart building technologies have enabled us to collect massive Wi-Fi network based trajectory data, which provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding the indoor user mobility pattern and enabling a wide range of business applications. While some previous studies have explored the Wi-Fi positioning of users, there still lacks a systematic and effective solution for indoor user mobility pattern analysis based on Wi-Fi trajectory data. To this end, in this paper, we propose a unified framework for modeling Wi-Fi trajectory data, namely HWTE, which can empower various tasks of indoor user mobility pattern analysis, such as user classification, next location prediction and schedule estimation. Specifically, we first propose a session trajectory construction module to extract the spatio-temporal semantic information from the Wi-Fi trajectories of users. Then, we devise a pre-training module to learn the unified representation of Wi-Fi trajectories. In particular, a session position embedding technique and a position query task is introduced to enhance the representation ability of the whole trajectory. Moreover, we further propose a hierarchical Transformer-based fine-tuning module to support various application tasks with time and space efficiency. Finally, we validate our framework on a real-world dataset with all three kinds of downstream tasks.

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