IMPROVED INDOOR LOCALIZATION WITH DIVERSITY AND FILTERING BASED ON RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS

Authors

  • Andreas Fink
  • Helmut Beikirch
  • Matthias Voss

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.9.1.692

Keywords:

Diversity Combining, Indoor Localization, Plausibility Filter, RSSI Reading.

Abstract

Distance estimation by the evaluation of RSSI measurements is a simple and well-known technique to predict the position of an unknown node. Therefore the infrastructure does not have to be extended by expensive hardware for synchronization or direction approximation. However, with the localization based on RSSI measurements common and proven systems can be used for the infrastructure. For indoor environments the distance-pending path loss is affected by strong variations, especially appearing as frequency specific signal dropouts. A diversity concept with redundant data transmission in different frequency bands can reduce the dropout probability. If also space diversity and plausibility filtering are used, the Location Estimation Error can be reduced significantly. The investigations show that a good performance for precision and availability can also be reached with low infrastructural costs.

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Published

2010-12-20

How to Cite

Fink, A., Beikirch, H., & Voss, M. (2010). IMPROVED INDOOR LOCALIZATION WITH DIVERSITY AND FILTERING BASED ON RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS. International Journal of Computing, 9(1), 9-15. https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.9.1.692

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2010, Volume 9, Issue 1

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