Indoor localization system using wireless sensor network

Abstract EN

Building a precise low cost indoor positioning and navigation wireless system is a challenging task.

The accuracy and cost should be taken together into account.

Especially, when we need a system to be built in a harsh environment.

In recent years, several researches have been implemented to build different indoor positioning system (IPS) types for human movement using wireless commercial sensors.

The aim of this paper is to prove that it is not always the case that having a larger number of anchor nodes will increase the accuracy.

Two and three anchor nodes of ultra-wide band with or without the commercial devices (DW 1000) could be implemented in this work to find the Localization of objects in different indoor positioning system, for which the results showed that sometimes three anchor nodes are better than two and vice versa.

It depends on how to install the anchor nodes in an appropriate scenario that may allow utilizing a smaller number of anchors while maintaining the required accuracy and cost.