Novel semi-passive RFID system for indoor localization

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 528-537

  Athalye, Akshay ^a   Savic, Vladimir ^b,c   Bolic, Miodrag ^d   Djuric, Petar M ^e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor localization; passive tags; radio frequency identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER MODULATION; BINARY SENSORS; EXACT PLACEMENT; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; PASSIVE RFID; PASSIVE TAGS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REAL APPLICATIONS; RFID READERS; RFID SYSTEMS; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; SENSORS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84872293980     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2220344     Document Type: Article

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