Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
This paper describes research towards a system
for locating wireless nodes in a home environment requiring
merely a single access point. The only sensor reading used for
the location estimation is the received signal strength indication
(RSSI) as given by an RF interface, e.g.,Wi-Fi.Wireless
signal strengthmaps for the positioning filter are obtained by
a two-step parametric and measurement driven ray-tracing
approach to account for absorption and reflection characteristics
of various obstacles. Location estimates are then
computed using Bayesian filtering on sample sets derived
by Monte Carlo sampling. We outline the research leading
to the system and provide location performance metrics using
trace-driven simulations and real-life experiments. Our
results and real-life walk-troughs indicate that RSSI readings
from a single access point in an indoor environment
are sufficient to derive good location estimates of users with
sub-room precision.