Active RFID trilateration and location fingerprinting based on RSSI for pedestrian navigation

Journal of Navigation

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-340

  Fu, Qing ^a   Retscher, Guenther ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active RFID; Location Fingerprinting; RSSI; Trilateration

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RFID; CELL SIZE; CELL-BASED; CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; INTEGRATED POSITIONING; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNIONS; ITERATIVE APPROACH; LOCATION FINGERPRINTING; LOCATION METHOD; LOCATION MODELS; LOGARITHMIC MODELS; LONG RANGE; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; POLYNOMIAL MODELS; POSITION DETERMINATION; POSITIONING ACCURACY; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATION; RF-ID TAGS; RFID APPLICATIONS; RFID READERS; SATELLITE SIGNALS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; TEST RESULTS; TRAINING PHASE; TRILATERATION; WORK PACKAGES;

COBALT COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; MAPPING; MAPS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION; SURVEYING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

LOCATION;

MODELING; NAVIGATION; PEDESTRIAN;

EID: 65749095005     PISSN: 03734633     EISSN: 14697785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463308005195     Document Type: Article

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