RFID tags: Positioning principles and localization techniques
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Citations
Phase based spatial identification of UHF RFID tags
Accurate localization of RFID tags using phase difference
Cloud-Supported Cyber–Physical Localization Framework for Patients Monitoring
Minding the Billions: Ultra-wideband Localization for Deployed RFID Tags
New measurement results for the localization of UHF RFID transponders using an Angle of Arrival (AoA) approach
References
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
LANDMARC: indoor location sensing using active RFID
An introduction to RFID technology
SpotON: An Indoor 3D Location Sensing Technology Based on RF Signal Strength
VIRE: Active RFID-based Localization Using Virtual Reference Elimination
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LANDMARC: indoor location sensing using active RFID
Frequently Asked Questions (13)
Q2. What are the stages of probabilistic methods?
probabilistic methods involve different stages such as calibration, active learning, error estimation, and tracking with history.
Q3. What is the disadvantage of the RSP method?
4) RSP: The RSP method, also called Phase Of Arrival (POA), uses the delay, expressed as a fraction of the signal’s wavelength, to estimate distance.
Q4. What is the disadvantage of the RSP method when applied in indoor environments?
The disadvantage of the RSP method when applied in indoor environments is that it strongly needs a LOS signal path to limit localization errors.
Q5. What are the main problems of radio propagation in indoor environment?
Radio propagation in indoor environment is subject to numerous problems such as severe multipath, rare line-ofsight (LOS) path, absorption, diffraction, and reflection [4].
Q6. What is the approach to localizing RFID tags?
The approach is simple: multiple readers collect signal strength measurements in order to approximate distance through a function defined with empirical data.
Q7. What is the method used to reduce the effect of the error measurement?
The Kalman filter is then used iteratively on this online map to reduce the effect of RSS error measurement and thus to improve the accuracy of the localization.
Q8. What is the first step used for the localization of a tag?
The first step is applied for each reference tag in order to calculate their corresponding error probability distribution function with the help of their estimated location and their real location.
Q9. What is the common approach to finding the location of a target?
The problem stated in probabilistic approaches is to find the location of a target assuming that there are n possible locations and one observed signal strength vector during the online phase according to posteriori probability and Bayes formula.
Q10. What is the common method of finding the location of a target?
during the online phase, RSS measurements linked to the target are performed to search for the k closest matches in the signal space previously-built.
Q11. What are the main characteristics of RFID?
in terms of scalability and availability, these RFID positioning techniques have their own important characteristics when applied in real environments.
Q12. What are the advantages of passive tags?
On the contrary, when tags have more energy and thus larger read range or when readers are densely deployed, more elaborated techniques can be applied to localize tags.
Q13. What is the time delay Tsys caused by the system?
(1)The time delay Tsys caused by the system and the time delay Tcable,i due to the cables between each receiving antenna and the demodulator are calculated during a pre-calibration phase.