Vasilis Stavrou

Dr. Vasilis Stavrou


Research Focus & Metrics

Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

View All Publications
19 October 2019 in Sensors
Verified
Journal Article
Open access
PDF file
VSVasilis Stavrou
Vasilis Stavrou
CBCleopatra Bardaki
Cleopatra Bardaki
DPDimitris Papakyriakopoulos
Dimitris Papakyriakopoulos
Katerina PramatariKaterina Pramatari
Katerina Pramatari
This paper has developed and deployed a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon-based indoor positioning system in a two-floor retail store. The ultimate purpose of this study was to compare the different indoor positioning techniques towards achieving efficient position determination of moving customers in the retail store. The innovation of this research lies in its context (the retail store) and the fact that this is not a laboratory, controlled experiment. Retail stores are challenging environments with multiple sources of noise (e.g., shoppers’ moving) that impede indoor localization. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first work concerning indoor localization of consumers in a real retail store. This study proposes an ensemble filter with lower absolute mean and root mean squared errors than the random forest. Moreover, the localization error is approximately 2 m, while for the random forest, it is 2.5 m. In retail environments, even a 0.5 m deviation is significant because consumers may be positioned in front of different store shelves and, thus, different product categories. The more accurate the consumer localization, the more accurate and rich insights on the customers’ shopping behavior. Consequently, retailers can offer more effective customer location-based services (e.g., personalized offers) and, overall, better consumer localization can improve decision making in retailing.

1 October 2014 in Computers & Security
Verified
Journal Article
Closed access
VSVasilis Stavrou
Vasilis Stavrou
DGDimitris Gritzalis
Dimitris Gritzalis

1 January 2017 in International Journal of Social Network Mining
Verified
Journal Article
Closed access
VSVasilis Stavrou
Vasilis Stavrou
LMLilian Mitrou
Lilian Mitrou
MKMiltiadis Kandias
Miltiadis Kandias
DGDimitris Gritzalis
Dimitris Gritzalis