A Low-Cost Collaborative Location Scheme with GNSS and RFID for the Internet of Things

Jing, Changfeng; Wang, Shouqing; Wang, Mingshu; Du, Mingyi; Zhou, Lei; Sun, Tiancheng; Wang, Jian

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A Low-Cost Collaborative Location Scheme with GNSS and RFID for the Internet of Things

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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))

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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. View Full-Text

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. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7050180

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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. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7050180

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Jing, Changfeng, Shouqing Wang, Mingshu Wang, Mingyi Du, Lei Zhou, Tiancheng Sun, and Jian Wang. 2018. "A Low-Cost Collaborative Location Scheme with GNSS and RFID for the Internet of Things" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7, no. 5: 180. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7050180

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