Low-Power, Long-Range, Precise 
Localization 
Nextech 2014, Rome - 28 August 2014 
Prof. Maarten Weyn 
maarten.weyn@uantwerpen.be
Research: Maarten Weyn 
I Localization: from Opportunistic to Just Enough 
I Low-power communication 
I Low-power
rmware development 
I Simultaneous Localization and Mapping 
Courses: 
I Mobile Communication 
I Digital Communication 
I Real-Time Localization Systems (Eng) 
I Ambient Intelligence (Eng): interaction between low-power 
communication, sensors, actuators, low-power hardware and 
algorithms 
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What I'm not going to do... 
I No sales talk 
I No academic formula's and equations 
I No futuristic foresights 
I No "You should's" 
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Low-Power, Long-Range, Precise Localization 
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Power 
Budget 
Range 
Accuracy/Precision 
Responsiveness 
Tag Size 
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Power 
Budget 
Range 
Accuracy/Precision 
Responsiveness 
Tag Size 
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Power 
Budget 
Range 
Accuracy/Precision 
Responsiveness 
Tag Size 
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Power Budget 
Low Power?: 
I LG Nexus 5: 2300 mAh / day ?!!! 
I Raspberry pi: 500 mAh 
I TelosB 
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Power Budget 
Low Power?: 
I LG Nexus 5: 2300 mAh / day ?!!! 
I Raspberry pi: 500 mAh 
I TelosB 
Application Driven: 
I e.g.: 1 year on coin cell (220 mAh) 
I e.g.: "the lifetime of the bird and 
weight  1 gram 
I e.g.: 2 year on 1/2 AA 3.6V battery 
(1100 mAh) ! 62Ah=day 
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Power Consumption: e.g. BLE 
I 3 x 12.8 mA x 660 s (0 
dBm) 
I 0.00704 Ah / beacon 
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Power Consumption: e.g. BLE 
I 3 x 12.8 mA x 660 s (0 
dBm) 
I 0.00704 Ah / beacon 
I iBeacon: 10 msg/s 
I ! 253.44 Ah 
!  1 month with a coincell battery 
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Accuracy vs Precision 
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Accuracy vs Precision 
Source: Versus Technology, Inc. 
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Range 
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Range 
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Range 
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Techniques 
I Signal Strength: 
I Attenuation 
I Pattern Matching (Fingerprinting) 
I Presence / Proximity 
I Time (Ranging): 
I Time of Flight - Time Dierence of Arrival 
I Round Trip Time 
I Direction Finding / Angle of Arrival 
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Signal Strength 
RSSd = PrdBm = 10 log Pr (d0)  10np log 
d 
d0 
+ X 
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Attenuation 
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Attenuation 
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Attenuation 
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Pattern Matching 
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Presence Detection 
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Time of Flight: Time Dierence of Arrival 
TDOAB-A 
TDOAC-A 
A B 
C 
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Time of Flight: Round Trip Time 
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Time of Flight: Cramer Rao Bound 
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^r  
c2 
42B2Es 
N0 
Source: Lanzisera et al.: Radio Frequency Time-of-Flight Distance Measurement 
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Direction Finding 
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Direction Finding 
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Power 
Budget 
Range 
Accuracy/Precision 
Responsiveness 
Tag Size 
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DASH7 
Active RFID Standard for 433 MHz. 
I Build on top of asynchronous WSN MAC. 
I High level functionality optimized for RFID. 
I De
nes full functional RFID tag. 
I Can be extended to non RFID applications. 
Supports Tag to Tag communication. 
DASH7 Alliance Protocol is designed to support
xed and mobile 
nodes that need to upload or retrieve small chunks of information 
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DASH7 
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DASH7 
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DASH7 
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Open Source Stack for DASH7 
http://oss-7.cosys.be 
LGPL v2.1 
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Open Source Stack for DASH7 
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Low-Power, Long-Range, Precise Localization