NDLI: Improving the accuracy of wireless lan based location determination systems using kalman filter and multiple observers

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Raman Kumar K. Apte, V. Powar, Y.A.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Bombay, Mumbai (Raman Kumar K; Apte, V.; Powar, Y.A.)
Abstract	Various RF based location determination systems have been proposed that use received signal strength fingerprints to identify locations. We implemented a Bayesian method for location determination in a WLAN testbed and were able to get about 80% accuracy of estimation with a precision of 2.5 meters. We proposed two mechanisms to improve this accuracy: 1) Kalman filtering to remove noise in received signal strength readings and 2) a technique which uses estimates from multiple observers to determine the location. Results from an IEEE 802.11b based implementation of the first method shows that Kalman filtering during the training phase can increase this accuracy to 90%. The multiple observer technique that uses received signal strength readings of the mobile device at the access point, also shows a similar increase in accuracy. Since the multiple observer technique requires more time and resources, we conclude that Kalman filtering is a more efficient and simple way to increase the accuracy of location determination
Starting Page	463
Ending Page	468
File Size	170694
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424402697
ISSN	15253511
e-ISBN	1424402700
DOI	10.1109/WCNC.2006.1683508
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-04-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Wireless LAN Kalman filters Filtering Radio frequency RF signals Signal processing Fingerprint recognition Radiofrequency identification Bayesian methods Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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