{"id":6640,"date":"2021-09-08T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:57:10","slug":"learn-about-indoor-positioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/learn-about-indoor-positioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn About Indoor Positioning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a recent paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-3417\/11\/1\/279\/htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Review of Indoor Positioning: Radio Wave Technology<\/a> that provides a great overview of indoor positioning technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/radiosignalsbasedpositioning.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/radiosignalsbasedpositioning.webp 550w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/radiosignalsbasedpositioning-300x261.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From a hardware perspective it covers, RFID, UWB, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IR, WiFi, ultrasonic and hybrid systems. There&#8217;s a useful comparison table of the various technologies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"981\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/indoorpositioningcomparison.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/indoorpositioningcomparison.png 981w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/indoorpositioningcomparison-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/indoorpositioningcomparison-768x677.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper describes methods of using radio signals to determine position such as RSSI ranging, trilateration, angle of arrival (AOA), round trip time of flight (RTOF), phase of arrival (POA) and time of arrival (TOA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trilateration-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trilateration-1.webp 550w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trilateration-1-300x254.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Trilateration<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It also describes methods such as fingerprint localization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a recent paper Review of Indoor Positioning: Radio Wave Technology that provides a great overview of indoor positioning technologies. From a hardware perspective it covers, RFID, UWB, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IR, WiFi, ultrasonic and hybrid systems. There&#8217;s a useful comparison table of the various technologies: The paper describes methods of using radio signals to determine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/learn-about-indoor-positioning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learn About Indoor Positioning&#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":[101,293],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640"}],"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=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}