Method and device for estimating ap position using a map of a wireless lan radio environment

Abstract

The present disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for estimating AP position using WLAN radiowave environment map. An embodiment includes filter for generating filtering radiowave map with data selected exclusively for having common MAC address from collected WLAN radiowave environment maps; grid-cell divisor for generating grid radiowave map with arbitrary grid cells from dividing the filtering radiowave map; representative-coordinate mapper for calculating centroid of each of grid cells constituting grid radiowave map and mapping each centroid as representative coordinate to each grid cell; representative-signal-strength mapper for calculating representative signal strengths based on data in grid cell and mapping each representative signal strength to grid cell; weight-value sorter for sorting out weight value corresponding to a range covering representative signal strength as received; and position estimator for estimating positional information of APs having common MAC address based on one or more of representative coordinate, representative signal strength, and weight value.