Method and system for managing mobile devices in extreme ambient conditions

A method of generating localization results of a set of mobile devices deployed on multiple floors of an indoor facility in a layout map of the indoor facility, the method performed in a processor of a server computing device and comprising:

• localizing a first mobile device and at least a second mobile device to a location on a first of the multiple floors and a second of the multiple floors respectively, based at least partly on respective filtered sets of barometric ambient pressure measurements obtained at the first and at least a second mobile devices, the filtered set of barometric ambient pressure measurements being obtained on detecting an ambient temperature anomaly, the ambient temperature anomaly including a temperature spike exceeding a predetermined threshold temperature and existing over a given duration of time, the predetermined threshold temperature defining a temperature beyond which the ambient temperature anomaly exists, and wherein each filtered set of barometric ambient pressure measurements is based on switching to a higher sampling rate of one or more temperature sensors of the respective first mobile device and at least a second mobile device as compared to a first sampling rate prior to detecting the ambient temperature anomaly, the filtering at least partially discards pressure measurements contemporaneous with a duration of the ambient temperature anomaly that exceeds the predetermined threshold temperature for at least a portion of the sequence of positions;
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• generating the layout map of the indoor facility that includes the first mobile device and the at least a second mobile device positioned within the first and the second of the multiple floors respectively, based on the localizing, when the ambient temperature anomaly is detected.