AirLog: Store-Level Indoor Life Logging Made Easy

Abstract:This paper presents AirLog, a smartphone-based life journaling system that automatically reconstructs users' store visits in shopping malls and summarizes them into human-readable journals. Unlike conventional indoor localization systems, AirLog avoids labor-intensive radio-map construction and dedicated wireless localization infrastructure and algorithm calibrations. Instead, it repurposes two cues already available in commercial spaces: semantic information exposed by ambient Wi-Fi SSIDs and indoor directory images. AirLog converts directory images into spatial maps and fuses Wi-Fi semantic anchors with inertial dead reckoning to recover store-level trajectories, which are then summarized into journals by an LLM. Such store-level life logs can support applications such as personal memory recall, activity reflection, and automated diary generation without requiring users to manually record where they have been. We implement AirLog on commodity smartphones and evaluate it on both a large-scale public dataset and a self-collected dataset. The results demonstrate that AirLog substantially improves store-level region recovery, semantic matching, trajectory reconstruction, and journal quality over existing baselines. A human evaluation further shows that the generated journals are coherent and faithful to users' visits.

Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.31864 [cs.NI]

(or arXiv:2609.31864v1 [cs.NI] for this version)

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