Title :
GuardianAngel: An RFID-based indoor guidance and monitoring system
Author :
Ahmed, Nova ; Butler, Stewart ; Ramachandran, Umakishore
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
fDate :
March 29 2010-April 2 2010
Abstract :
The current ubiquitous presence of RFID technology opens up possibilities for new applications. The RFID enabled indoor pervasive environment is the area of interest for our study. We explore the system requirements for an RFID enabled pervasive system and develop a middleware called GuardianAngel to support a monitoring and guidance system for use in an assisted living environment. This paper describes a prototype of such a system, using real RFID devices in a proof-of-concept to evaluate feasibility and emulated RFID devices to evaluate scalability. Our study illustrates the feasibility of such a system, demonstrating greater than 99% accuracy in situ with a confined testbed, and with above 93% accuracy estimated when emulated in a larger environment.
Keywords :
indoor radio; middleware; radiofrequency identification; radiotelemetry; telecommunication computing; ubiquitous computing; GuardianAngel; RFID devices; RFID-based indoor guidance and monitoring system; indoor pervasive system environment; middleware; Biomedical monitoring; Costs; Educational institutions; Passive RFID tags; Pervasive computing; Prototypes; Radiofrequency identification; Robustness; Scalability; System testing; Item guidance and monitoring; unobtrusive system;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mannheim
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6605-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6606-1
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470498