Active tag emulation for pedestrian localization applications

Active tags are currently used for various tasks in transport and distribution industries, for factory automation or asset tracking. Pedestrian localization is another application of active tags, for which we develop a technique and a practical system. Following preliminary real-world experiments with a system prototype, we continued to develop our active tag based pedestrian localization technique by an emulation approach that is discussed in this paper. We use emulation during development so as to be able to perform large-scale experiments with the pedestrian localization system easily and in a repeatable manner. The experimental results show the good agreement that exists between the real-world pedestrian scenario and the measurements made with the emulated system.