Indoor localization of passive UHF RFID tags based on phase-of-arrival evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4724-4729

  Scherhäufl, Martin ^a   Pichler, Markus ^a   Schimbäck, Erwin ^a   Müller, Dominikus J ^b   Ziroff, Andreas ^b   Stelzer, Andreas ^c  

^a LINZ CENTER OF MECHATRONICS GMBH   (Austria)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Phase estimation; Position measurement; Radio frequency identification (RFID); RFID tags; UHF technology

Indexed keywords

INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LOCAL POSITION MEASUREMENTS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; MULTIPLE-CHANNEL SYSTEM; PHASE ESTIMATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; RF-ID TAGS;

POSITION MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84890439721     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2287183     Document Type: Article

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