WLAN-Based Real Time Vehicle Locating System

Author

Caceres, Mauricio ; Sottile, Francesco ; Spirito, Maurizio A.

Author_Institution

Politec. di Torino, Turin

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a wireless local area network (WLAN)-based real time system for indoors and outdoors vehicle localization. The proposed solution uses a neural network trained with a map of received power fingerprints from WLAN Access Points (APs) surrounding the vehicle. The practical implementation of the system is described and results from an outdoor experimental testbed are analyzed to address system performance in terms of calibration, estimation complexity, and location accuracy. Pre- and post-processing approaches aimed at improving system accuracy are also discussed.

Keywords

indoor radio; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile radio; neural nets; radio direction-finding; wireless LAN; WLAN; indoor radio; neural network training; power fingerprint; real time vehicle locating system; wireless local area network; Calibration; Fingerprint recognition; Global Positioning System; Neural networks; Performance evaluation; Real time systems; System testing; Vehicles; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2009. VTC Spring 2009. IEEE 69th

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2517-4

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073916

Filename

5073916