Location Estimation Approach of Multiple Sensor Nodes Using Received Signal Strength Measurements

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3365-3372
Author(s):  
Hao Zhang

Location estimation in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is mandatory to achieve high network efficiency. Identifying the positions of sensors is an uphill task as monitoring nodes are involved in estimation and localization. Clustered Positioning for Indoor Environment (CPIE) is proposed for estimating the position of the sensors using a Cluster Head (CH) based mechanism. The CH estimates the number of neighbor nodes in each floor of the indoor environment. It sends the requests to the cluster members and the positions are estimated based on the Received Signal Strength Indicators (RSSIs) from the members of the cluster. The performance of the proposed scheme is analyzed for both stable and mobile conditions by varying the number of floors. Experimental results show that the propounded scheme offers better network efficiency and reduces delay and localization error


Author(s):  
Shih-Hau Fang

Indoor positioning systems have received increasing attention for supporting location-based services in indoor environments. Received signal strength (RSS), mostly utilized in Wi-Fi fingerprinting systems, is known to be unreliable due to two reasons: orientation mismatch and variations in hardware. This chapter introduces an approach based on histogram equalization to compensate for orientation mismatch in robust Wi-Fi localization. The proposed method involves converting the temporal-spatial radio signal strength into a reference function (i.e., equalizing the histogram). This chapter also introduces an enhanced positioning feature, which is called delta-fused principal strength, to enhance the robustness of Wi-Fi localization against the problem of heterogeneous hardware. This algorithm computes the pairwise delta RSS and then integrates with RSS using principal component analysis. The proposed methods effectively and efficiently improve the robustness of location estimation in the presence of mismatch orientation and hardware variations, respectively.


2006 ◽  
Vol E89-B (10) ◽  
pp. 2687-2695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. TAKIZAWA ◽  
P. DAVIS ◽  
M. KAWAI ◽  
H. IWAI ◽  
A. YAMAGUCHI ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar Singh ◽  
Prabhat Kumar ◽  
Jyoti Prakash Singh

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is formed by a large number of low-cost sensors. In order to exchange information, sensor nodes communicate in an ad hoc manner. The acquired information is useful only when the location of sensors is known. To use GPS-aided devices in each sensor makes sensors more costly and energy hungry. Hence, finding the location of nodes in WSNs becomes a major issue. In this paper, the authors propose a combination of range based and range-free localization scheme. In their scheme, for finding the distance, they use received signal strength indication (RSSI), which is a range based center of gravity technique. For finding the location of non-anchor nodes, the authors assign weights to anchor and non-anchor nodes based on received signal strength. The weight, which is assigned to anchor and non-anchor nodes, are designed by fuzzy logic system (FLS).


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1995
Author(s):  
David Sánchez-Rodríguez ◽  
Miguel A. Quintana-Suárez ◽  
Itziar Alonso-González ◽  
Carlos Ley-Bosch ◽  
Javier J. Sánchez-Medina

In recent years, indoor localization systems based on fingerprinting have had significant advances yielding high accuracies. Those approaches often use information about channel communication, such as channel state information (CSI) and received signal strength (RSS). Nevertheless, these features have always been employed separately. Although CSI provides more fine-grained physical layer information than RSS, in this manuscript, a methodology for indoor localization fusing both features from a single access point is proposed to provide a better accuracy. In addition, CSI amplitude information is processed to remove high variability information that can negatively influence location estimation. The methodology was implemented and validated in two scenarios using a single access point located in two different positions and configured in 2.4 and 5 GHz frequency bands. The experiments show that the methodology yields an average error distance of about 0.1 m using the 5 GHz band and a single access point.


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