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Localizing Persons Using Body Area Sensor Network

Localizing Persons Using Body Area Sensor Network

Cheng Guo, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Jing Wang, Vijay Sathyanarayana Rao, Ignas Niemegeers
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466617971|ISBN10: 1466617977|EISBN13: 9781466617988
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1797-1.ch013
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Guo, Cheng, et al. "Localizing Persons Using Body Area Sensor Network." Developments in Wireless Network Prototyping, Design, and Deployment: Future Generations, edited by Mohammad A. Matin, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 273-289. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1797-1.ch013

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Guo, C., Prasad, R. V., Wang, J., Rao, V. S., & Niemegeers, I. (2012). Localizing Persons Using Body Area Sensor Network. In M. Matin (Ed.), Developments in Wireless Network Prototyping, Design, and Deployment: Future Generations (pp. 273-289). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1797-1.ch013

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Guo, Cheng, et al. "Localizing Persons Using Body Area Sensor Network." In Developments in Wireless Network Prototyping, Design, and Deployment: Future Generations, edited by Mohammad A. Matin, 273-289. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1797-1.ch013

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Abstract

Context awareness is an important aspect in many ICT applications. For example, in an intelligent home network, location of the user enables session transfer, lighting, and temperature control, et cetera. In fact, in a body area sensor network (BASN), location estimation of a user helps in realizing realtime monitoring of the person (especially those who require help) for better health supervision. In this chapter the authors first introduce many localization methods and algorithms from the literature in BASNs. They also present classification of these methods. Amongst them, location estimation using signal strength is one of the foremost. In indoor environments, the authors found that the signal strength based localization methods are usually not accurate, since signal strength fluctuates. The fluctuation in signal strength is due to deficient antenna coverage and multi-path interference. Thus, localization algorithms usually fail to achieve good accuracy. The authors propose to solve this problem by combining multiple receivers in a body area sensor network to estimate the location with a higher accuracy. This method mitigates the errors caused by antenna orientations and beam forming properties. The chapter evaluates the performance of the solution with experiments. It is tested with both range-based and range-free localization algorithm that we developed. The chapter shows that with spatial diversity, the localization accuracy is improved compared to using single receiver alone. Moreover, the authors observe that range-based algorithm has a better performance.

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