{"id":6010,"date":"2021-01-18T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:27:25","slug":"sensor-placement-optimisation-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/sensor-placement-optimisation-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensor Placement Optimisation Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s interesting new research into <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/1550147720979922\" target=\"_blank\">Sensor Placement Optimization for Critical-grid Coverage Problem of Indoor Positioning<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This research looked into optimising the location of sensors as opposed to the more usual methods of filtering signals to improve accuracy. The aim was to reduce deployment costs by deploying more sensors in critical areas that were identified as needing greater positioning accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bluetoothbeaconcriticalgridcoverage.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bluetoothbeaconcriticalgridcoverage.png 649w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bluetoothbeaconcriticalgridcoverage-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The critical-grid coverage scheme and NSGA-II algorithm were used to optimise the placement of iBeacon nodes in underground parking lots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"805\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ibeaconplacement.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ibeaconplacement.png 805w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ibeaconplacement-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ibeaconplacement-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconForRTLS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about Using Beacons, iBeacons for Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s interesting new research into Sensor Placement Optimization for Critical-grid Coverage Problem of Indoor Positioning (PDF). This research looked into optimising the location of sensors as opposed to the more usual methods of filtering signals to improve accuracy. The aim was to reduce deployment costs by deploying more sensors in critical areas that were identified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/sensor-placement-optimisation-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sensor Placement Optimisation Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6017,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}