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One More Tag Enables Fine-Grained RFID Localization and Tracking

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Xiang-Yang LiAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 26, Issue 1

Pages 161 - 174

https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2017.2766526

Published: 01 February 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Exploiting radio frequency signals is promising for locating and tracking objects. Prior works focus on per-tag localization, in which each object is attached with one tag. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive localization and tracking scheme by attaching two RFID tags to one object. Instead of using per-tag localization pattern, adding one-more RFID tag to the object exhibits several benefits: 1 providing rich freedom in RFID reader’s antenna spacing and placement; 2 supporting accurate calibration of the reader’s antenna location and spacing, and 3 enabling fine-grained calculation on the orientation of the tags. All of these advantages ultimately improve the localization/tracking accuracy. Our extensive experimental results demonstrate that the average errors of localization and orientation of target tags are 6.415 cm and 1.330°, respectively. Our results also verify that the reader’s antenna geometry does have impact on tag positioning performance.

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