{"id":7891,"date":"2022-09-09T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T08:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2022-09-09T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T08:48:57","slug":"using-ai-machine-learning-to-improve-ranging-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ai-machine-learning-to-improve-ranging-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI Machine Learning to Improve Ranging Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s new research from Oregon State University, USA and Peking University, Beijing, China on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/22\/17\/6404\/htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Ranging Accuracy with AoA and RSSI<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aoarssiworkflow.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aoarssiworkflow.png 557w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aoarssiworkflow-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 85vw, 557px\" \/><figcaption>System Workflow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Machine learning was used to determine the line-of-sight distance in a multipath (reflective) environment. Due to the multipath effect, acquired signals indoors have complex mathematical models. A machine learning Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is the most efficient way to process these signals.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/rssiaoarangingerror.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7893\" width=\"409\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/rssiaoarangingerror.png 545w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/rssiaoarangingerror-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 85vw, 409px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The system achieved accuracy where 75% of the errors were less than 0.1 m with a median error of 0.037 m and a mean error of 0.092 m. This reduced ranging errors to under 10cm. The researchers were able to achieve high-precision indoor ranging without the need for a wide signal bandwidth nor synchronisation. The system was also simple and low cost to deploy due to low complexity of the equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s new research from Oregon State University, USA and Peking University, Beijing, China on A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Ranging Accuracy with AoA and RSSI. Machine learning was used to determine the line-of-sight distance in a multipath (reflective) environment. Due to the multipath effect, acquired signals indoors have complex mathematical models. A machine learning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ai-machine-learning-to-improve-ranging-accuracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using AI Machine Learning to Improve Ranging Accuracy&#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":[294,173,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891"}],"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=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}