Experimental assessment of a RSS-based localization algorithm in indoor environment

Author

Pivato, Paolo ; Fontana, Luigi ; Palopoli, Luigi ; Petri, Dario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

3-6 May 2010

Firstpage

416

Lastpage

421

Abstract

In this paper we show the results of an experimental assessment of an indoor localization system based on a Wireless Sensor Network. The estimated position of a target node embedded in the monitored environment is obtained by running of the Relative Span Exponentially Weighted Localization (REWL) algorithm, a novel localization procedure recently proposed in the literature. The inputs of the algorithm are the Received Signal Strength (RSS) measurements collected in a real indoor scenario. A description of the developed system and a metrological characterization of the proposed technique is presented in this paper.

Keywords

wireless sensor networks; RSS based localization algorithm; indoor localization system; metrological characterization; received signal strength measurement; relative span exponentially weighted localization algorithm; wireless sensor network; Agriculture; Computer science; Computerized monitoring; Costs; Energy consumption; Global Positioning System; Indoor environments; Semiconductor device measurement; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2832-8

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488099

Filename

5488099