A Low-Cost Collaborative Location Scheme with GNSS and RFID for the Internet of Things
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School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
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Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2018, 7(5), 180; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7050180
Received: 8 April 2018 / Revised: 29 April 2018 / Accepted: 7 May 2018 / Published: 9 May 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Applications of the Internet of Things (IoT))
The emergence and development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted growing attention to low-cost location systems when facing the dramatically increased number of public infrastructure assets in smart cities. Various radio frequency identification (RFID)-based locating systems have been developed. However, most of them are impractical for infrastructure asset inspection and management on a large scale due to their high cost, inefficient deployment, and complex environments such as emergencies or high-rise buildings. In this paper, we proposed a novel locating system by combing the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) with RFID, in which a target tag was located with one RFID reader and one GNSS receiver with sufficient accuracy for infrastructure asset management. To overcome the cost challenge, one mobile RFID reader-mounted GNSS receiver is used to simulate multiple location known reference tags. A vast number of reference tags are necessary for current RFID-based locating systems, which means higher cost. To achieve fine-grained location accuracy, we utilize a distance-based power law weight algorithm to estimate the exact coordinates. Our experiment demonstrates the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed scheme with sufficient accuracy, low cost and easy deployment on a large scale. The proposed scheme has potential applications for location-based services in smart cities.
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Keywords:
Internet of Things (IoT); radio frequency identification (RFID); Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS); low-cost localization
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Jing, C.; Wang, S.; Wang, M.; Du, M.; Zhou, L.; Sun, T.; Wang, J. A Low-Cost Collaborative Location Scheme with GNSS and RFID for the Internet of Things. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2018, 7, 180.
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Jing C, Wang S, Wang M, Du M, Zhou L, Sun T, Wang J. A Low-Cost Collaborative Location Scheme with GNSS and RFID for the Internet of Things. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2018; 7(5):180.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJing, Changfeng; Wang, Shouqing; Wang, Mingshu; Du, Mingyi; Zhou, Lei; Sun, Tiancheng; Wang, Jian. 2018. "A Low-Cost Collaborative Location Scheme with GNSS and RFID for the Internet of Things" ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 7, no. 5: 180.
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