Indoor localization is very critical for medical care applications, e.g., the patient localization or tracking inside the building of the hospital. Traditional Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) technologies are ver...Indoor localization is very critical for medical care applications, e.g., the patient localization or tracking inside the building of the hospital. Traditional Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) technologies are very popular in this area since their cost is very low. In such technologies, each tag acts as the transmitter and the Radio Signal Strength Indicator(RSSI) information is measured from the readers. However, RSSI information suffers severely from the multi- path phenomenon. As a result, if in a very large area, the localization accuracy will be affected seriously. In order to solve this problem, we introduce Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) with only a few nodes, each of which acts as both transmitter and receiver. In such networks, the change of signal strength(referred as dynamic of RSSI) is leveraged to select a cluster of reference tags as candidates. Then the fi nal target location is estimated by using the RSSI relationships between the target tag and candidate reference tags. Thus, the localization accuracy and scalability are able to be improved. We proposed two algorithms, SA-LANDMARC, and COCKTAIL. Experiments show that the localization accuracy of the two algorithms can reach 0.7m and 0.45 m, respectively. Compared to most traditional Radio Frequency(RF)-based approaches, the localization accuracy is improved at least 50%.展开更多
基金supported in part by China NSFC Grant 61202377 and 61170076the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation under Grant 2014A030313553+2 种基金the China National High Technology Research and Development Program 863, under Grant 2015AA015305Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U1301252Guangdong Province Key Laboratory Project under grant 2012A061400024
文摘Indoor localization is very critical for medical care applications, e.g., the patient localization or tracking inside the building of the hospital. Traditional Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) technologies are very popular in this area since their cost is very low. In such technologies, each tag acts as the transmitter and the Radio Signal Strength Indicator(RSSI) information is measured from the readers. However, RSSI information suffers severely from the multi- path phenomenon. As a result, if in a very large area, the localization accuracy will be affected seriously. In order to solve this problem, we introduce Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) with only a few nodes, each of which acts as both transmitter and receiver. In such networks, the change of signal strength(referred as dynamic of RSSI) is leveraged to select a cluster of reference tags as candidates. Then the fi nal target location is estimated by using the RSSI relationships between the target tag and candidate reference tags. Thus, the localization accuracy and scalability are able to be improved. We proposed two algorithms, SA-LANDMARC, and COCKTAIL. Experiments show that the localization accuracy of the two algorithms can reach 0.7m and 0.45 m, respectively. Compared to most traditional Radio Frequency(RF)-based approaches, the localization accuracy is improved at least 50%.
