Paper Info
Title
Real-Time Indoor Geolocation Tracking For Assisted Healthcare Facilities
Abstract
A leading cause of physical injury sustained by elderly persons is the event of unintentionally falling. A delay between the time of fall and the time of medical attention can exacerbate injury if the fall resulted in a concussion, traumatic brain injury, or bone fracture. The authors present a solution capable of finding and tracking, in real-time, the location of an elderly person within an indoor facility, using only existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. This paper discusses the development of an open source software framework capable of finding the location of an individual within 3m accuracy using 802.11 Wi-Fi in good coverage areas. This framework is comprised of an embedded software layer, a Web Services layer, and a mobile application for monitoring the location of individuals, calculated using trilateration, with Kalman filtering employed to reduce the effect of multipath interference. The solution provides a real-time, low cost, extendible solution to the problem of indoor geolocation to mitigate potential harm to elderly persons who have fallen and require immediate medical help.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.4018/IJITN.2020040101
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Assisted Healthcare Technology, Indoor Geolocation, Indoor Location System, Indoor Positioning System, Kalman Filtering, Location Tracking, Trilateration, Wireless Sensor Networks
Journal
12
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1941-8663
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kinjal Gala100.34
Paul David Bryden200.34
Christopher Paolini3254.30
Matthew Wang400.34
Albena Mihovska512526.27
Mahasweta Sarkar613217.10