Accurate Dead Reckoning Localization System Using RFID Phase

Abstract:

Nowadays, the demands of Location-based Service are growing fast. It contains huge business opportunities. This paper presents an efficient indoor localization scheme using Radio-Frequency Identification technology. The major idea of our method is Dead Reckoning, a method of navigation that using the best estimates of speed and direction to calculate users' motion trace. We implemented Dead Reckoning in indoor environment by taking advantage of features of RFID. We collected RFID tag phase value to calculate the velocity of users and recalibrate users' position by using known fixed RFID reader. We designed a series of experiments to verify the feasibility of our velocity calculation method, then we simulated the whole process of our system. The results show that our system can track user's motion effectively in indoor environment. We believe this is an encouraging result, holding promise for real-world deployment.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 513-517)
• Pages: 3296-3299
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.513-517.3296
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Bo Li*, Dong Wang
• Keywords: Dead Reckoning, Localization, RFID

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