In today’s world, countless wireless products like cell phones, cordless pones, wireless internet access, etc have been introduced, and this increase in wireless products has raised the use of wireless networks indoors. Most people are hesitant to do extensive wiring indoors due to the difficulties involved.
In the recent past, wireless networks are paving their way indoors for use in office and home environments. Wireless geolocation is the method of identifying the real world geographic location of an object.
This post discusses briefly about wireless indoor geolocation.
Wireless networks are a good solution for this problem due to the benefits of cost efficiency, mobility and re-localizability. These benefits leave wireless networks as one of the most feasible options for indoor geolocation.
Technology Behind Wireless Indoor Relocation
Wireless indoor relocation is an evolving technology for commercial as well as military application recently. Geolocation applications have many objectives; the basic need of a wireless geolocation system is to collect specific details about the location of a Mobile Station (MS) and process the details to provide an estimate of the location.
The specific details gathered may be all or any of the following
- Received Signal Strength (RSS)
- Times of Arrival (TOA),
- Time Differences of Arrival (TDOA),
- Angles of Arrival (AOA).
Here’s a cool link to read more on wireless indoor geolocation techniques
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