On the Feasibility of Using Wireless Ethernet for Indoor Localization

A. M. Ladd, K. E. Bekris, A. Rudys, L. E. Kavraki, and D. S. Wallach, “On the Feasibility of Using Wireless Ethernet for Indoor Localization,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 555–559, Jun. 2004.

Abstract

IEEE 802.11b wireless Ethernet is becoming the standard for indoor wireless communication. This paper proposes the use of measured signal strength of Ethernet packets as a sensor for a localization system. We demonstrate that off-the-shelf hardware can accurately be used for location sensing and real-time tracking by applying a Bayesian localization framework.

Publisher: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRA.2004.824948

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