Evaluating a Novel Bluetooth 5.1 AoA Approach for Low-Cost Indoor Vehicle Tracking via Simulation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2021

Authors

Nuno Paulino (Author) FEUP; L. M. Pessoa (Author) FEUP; Branquinho, A (Author) Other; Goncalves, E (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2021 JOINT EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS & 6G SUMMIT (EUCNC/6G SUMMIT)

Pages: 259-264

Joint 30th European Conference on Networks and Communications / 3rd 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit)

ELECTR NETWORK, JUN 08-11, 2021

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Authenticus ID: P-00V-ANQ

DOI: 10.1109/eucnc/6gsummit51104.2021.9482525

Abstract (EN): The recent Bluetooth 5.1 specification introduced the use of Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) information which enables the design of novel low-cost indoor positioning systems. Existing approaches rely on multiple fixed gateways equipped with antenna arrays, in order to determine the location of an arbitrary number of simple mobile omni-directional emitters. In this paper, we instead present an approach where mobile receivers are equipped with antenna arrays, and the fixed infrastructure is composed of battery-powered beacons. We implement a simulator to evaluate the solution using a real-world data set of AoA measurements. We evaluated the solution as a function of the number of beacons, their transmission period, and algorithmic parameters of the position estimation. Sub-meter accuracy is achievable using 1 beacon per 15 m(2) and a beacon transmission period of 500 ms.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6