Paper Info
Title
Full-scale testing and performance evaluation of an active RFID system for positioning and personal mobility
Abstract
This paper presents a series of tests and analyses undertaken to investigate the performance capabilities of an active RFID system (Freaquent®) for asset tracking and personal mobility. The RFID system was tested exhaustively considering a number of user requirements including maximum operating distance, antenna orientation, position accuracy, the influences caused by nearby objects and the operating environment. For this purpose, various positioning techniques were applied based on the lateration and fingerprinting positioning concepts. Analysis revealed that the lateration technique is sensitive to operational environment; however, as long as a representative “RSS to distance” model is established the method can deliver accuracies of the order of 0.7 m at unobstructed line-of-sight conditions. Location fingerprinting has shown that large temporal variations can occur partly which effect the radio maps of RSS distributions significantly. Thus, RSS training measurements have to performed at regular intervals to guarantee acceptable positioning accuracies on the meter-level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IPIN.2016.7743615
2016 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Radio Frequency Identification,positioning,lateration,location fingerprinting
Operating environment,Full scale,Simulation,Fingerprint recognition,Personal mobility,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Engineering,Asset tracking,RSS,User requirements document
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2162-7347
978-1-5090-2426-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vassilis Gikas1275.40
Andreas Dimitratos200.34
Harris Perakis341.23
Günther Retscher4466.04
Andreas Ettlinger541.83