Title :
Practicability Study on the Improvement of the Indoor Location Tracking Accuracy with Active RFID
Author :
Hsu, Pang-Wei ; Lin, T.H. ; Chang, Herbert H. ; Chen, Y.T. ; Yen, C.Y. ; Tseng, Y.J. ; Chang, C.T. ; Chiu, H.W. ; Hsiao, C.H. ; Chen, P.C. ; Lin, L.C. ; Yuan, Hanna S. ; Chu, Woei C.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Biomed. Eng., Nat. Yang-Ming Univ., Taipei
Abstract :
The proliferation of communication and mobile computing devices and local-area wireless networks has cultivated a growing interest in location-aware systems and services. An essential problem in location-aware computing is the determination of physical locations. RFID technologies are gaining much attention as they are attractive solutions to indoor localization applications. In this paper, we propose a new indoor locating system based on the received signal strength intensity. The proposed algorithm introduced a signal strength preprocessing step to improve the accuracy of existing techniques. We investigate optimal parameters in terms of reader and reference tag properties through computer simulations. A new configuration in placing reference tags on the perimeter of a sensing area is also introduced. Comparing with other methods, our experimental results indicate that proposed system achieved more accurate localization with fewer reference tags needed.
Keywords :
indoor radio; mobile computing; mobile radio; radio tracking; radiofrequency identification; wireless LAN; active RFID; indoor location tracking; local-area wireless network; location-aware computing; location-aware service; location-aware system; mobile computing device; received signal strength intensity; Active RFID tags; Biology computing; Biomedical computing; Biomedical imaging; Computer networks; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Mobile Computing, 2009. CMC '09. WRI International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yunnan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3501-2
DOI :
10.1109/CMC.2009.308