Hybrid WLAN-RFID Indoor Localization Solution Utilizing Textile Tag

This letter presents a novel hybrid configuration for indoor positioning, utilizing the passive radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless local area network (WLAN). Our architecture is based on a mobile device with a WLAN receiver, a textile RFID tag, and one or several RFID readers communi...

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Published in:IEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters 2015, Vol.14, p.1358-1361
Main Authors: Hasani, Masoumeh, Talvitie, Jukka, Sydanheimo, Lauri, Lohan, Elena-Simona, Ukkonen, Leena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Antenna measurements
Backscattered power
Estimation
fingerprinting
indoor positioning
Passive RFID tags
received signal strength (RSS)
RFID
UHF measurements
Wireless LAN
wireless local area network (WLAN)
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Summary:This letter presents a novel hybrid configuration for indoor positioning, utilizing the passive radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless local area network (WLAN). Our architecture is based on a mobile device with a WLAN receiver, a textile RFID tag, and one or several RFID readers communicating with the mobile. The proposed passive textile RFID tag provides a very cost effective, power efficient, and easily implemented solution for human positioning and tracking applications. In addition, the joint utilization of two technologies increases the accuracy of the indoor positioning service. Our main contribution comes from the innovative RFID-WLAN hybrid architecture based on received signal strengths and able to improve the localization accuracy compared to pure RFID and pure WLAN location solutions. The proposed algorithm is tested with real-field measurements.
ISSN:1536-1225
1548-5757
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2015.2406951