POUCET: A Multi-Technology Indoor Positioning Solution for Firefighters and Soldiers

A novel multi-technology indoor positioning system, Poucet, designed for military and firefighter operations, is introduced in this paper. A mobile agent, wearing a lightweight tracker, is located in real-time during indoor operations through a combination of outdoor stations and indoor beacons drop...

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Main Authors: Vey, Quentin, Spies, Francois, Pestourie, Baptiste, Genon-Catalot, Denis, Van Den Bossche, Adrien, Val, Thierry, Dalce, Rejane, Schrive, Julien
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Hardware
Indoor Positioning
Integrated circuits
LoRa
Mobile agents
Protocols
Prototypes
Radio Positioning
Real-time systems
Reliability engineering
Sensor Fusion
UWB
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Summary:A novel multi-technology indoor positioning system, Poucet, designed for military and firefighter operations, is introduced in this paper. A mobile agent, wearing a lightweight tracker, is located in real-time during indoor operations through a combination of outdoor stations and indoor beacons dropped by the agent on his way. Beacons and trackers integrate multiple radio positioning technologies, including Global Positioning System, (Long range Radio (LoRa 868MHz and 2.4 GHz), Ultrawide-band (UWB), and altimeters.Poucet's distributed architecture is presented along with the main features of each of the technologies used. A multi-input fusion algorithm provides continuous and reliable positioning. We report experimental results obtained during benchmarks scenarios conducted by the French National Defense on the presented prototypes.
ISSN:2471-917X
DOI:10.1109/IPIN51156.2021.9662587