| dc.description.abstract | Indoor positioning systems (IPS) have grown rapidly in applications across sectors
such as retail, healthcare and logistics. However, as location tracking expands within
closed environments, protecting user privacy and data security becomes increasingly
vital. This paper presents a systematic review of key challenges emerging in IPS
and evaluates mitigation strategies discussed in current research. The review first
identifies privacy issues such as unauthorized monitoring of user whereabouts and
profiling of behaviors that can compromise attributes. Mechanisms for anonymizing
location datasets as well as frameworks strengthening individual consent are discussed.
Regarding security risks, potential vulnerabilities in IPS infrastructure, positioning
signals and device authentication are evaluated. Various mitigation strategies proposed
in academic literature are surveyed, including techniques for anonymizing location
datasets, strengthening consent processes, implementing multi-factor authentication
and building redundancy into localization networks. The paper identifies three
dominant challenge categories through analysis: location tracking and privacy; system
manipulation and security and infrastructure dependencies/fault tolerance. Example
techniques proposed to address each category are summarized and references are
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