WipLoc: Perpetual Indoor Localization with RF Wireless Power Transfer

Master thesis (2016)

Authors

W. IJntema Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Contributors

K.G. Langendoen Embedded Systems - EEMCS (supervisor 1)
Przemysław Pawełczak Embedded Systems - EEMCS (supervisor 1)
J.H. Weber Discrete Mathematics and Optimization - EEMCS (supervisor 1)
Q. Liu System Engineering - TPM (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Copyright: © 2016 Wieger IJntema
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Published Date

15-01-2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Abstract

Indoor localization is a topic that has been investigated for more than a decade. Yet, no single system exists that is widely adopted as the de facto localization standard. From a research perspective the goal is to obtain a solution that is general, simple and accurate. As the number of devices in the Internet of Things grow, a new set of challenges are appearing: maintainability, low operational costs, and more importantly, energy autonomy. Considering the challenges above, the following problems are (among others) present in large scale indoor localization scenarios. The costs of replacing the batteries of thousands of anchor nodes (beacons, devices sending location inform-ation) and mobile nodes or tags (devices to be localized) is high.