Raza, Usman and Murphy, Amy L. and Picco, Gian Pietro (2012) Embracing Localization Inaccuracy: A Case Study. Trento : University of Trento.
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Abstract
In recent years, indoor localization has become a hot research topic with some sophisticated solutions reaching accuracy on the order of ten centimeters. While certain classes of applications can justify the corresponding costs that come with these solutions, a wealth of applications have requirements that can be met at much lower cost by accepting lower accuracy. This paper explores one specific application for monitoring patients in a nursing home, showing that sufficient accuracy can be achieved with a carefully designed deployment of low-cost wireless sensor network nodes in combination with a simple RSSI-based localization technique. Notably our solution uses a single radio sample per period, a number that is much lower than similar approaches. This greatly eases the power burden of the nodes, resulting in a significant lifetime increase. This paper evaluates a concrete deployment from summer 2012 composed of fixed anchor motes throughout one floor of a nursing home and mobile units carried by patients. We show how two localization algorithms perform and demonstrate a clear improvement by following a set of simple guidelines to tune the anchor node placement. We show both quantitatively and qualitatively that the results meet the functional and non-functional system requirements.
Item Type: | Departmental Technical Report |
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Department or Research center: | Information Engineering and Computer Science |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA075 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5105.5 Computer Networks T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7885 Computer Engineering |
Additional Information: | Accepted for publication in IEEE ISSNIP 2013 Proceedings. |
Report Number: | DISI-12-038 |
Repository staff approval on: | 26 Nov 2012 14:07 |
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