A Visible Light Communication Based Hybrid Positioning Method for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Ziyan Jia

Author_Institution

Jiangsu Teachers Univ. of Technol., Changzhou, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1367

Lastpage

1370

Abstract

A range-free visible light communication (VLC) based positioning method is proposed for indoor wireless sensor networks (WSN). Then the proposed VLC based positioning method and the conventional received signal strength indication (RSSI) based positioning methods are merged into a hybrid positioning method for indoor WSN to get more accuracy position message with lower power consumption. Computer simulations demonstrate that in a Rician fading environment, the accuracy of positioning can be effectively improved with the proposed hybrid positioning method and also longer battery life can be expected since the lower power consumption.

Keywords

Rician channels; indoor communication; optical communication; power consumption; wireless sensor networks; Computer simulations; RSSI based positioning methods; Rician fading environment; VLC based positioning method; WSN; battery life; hybrid positioning method; indoor WSN; indoor wireless sensor networks; power consumption; range-free visible light communication; received signal strength indication; wireless sensor networks; Accuracy; Estimation; Joints; Light emitting diodes; Power demand; Receivers; Wireless sensor networks; Hybrid Positioning; Received Signal Strength Indication; Visible Light Communication; Wireless Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent System Design and Engineering Application (ISDEA), 2012 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya, Hainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2120-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISdea.2012.411

Filename

6173463