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A Mobile Object Tracking Scheme by Wired/wireless Integrated Street Lights with RFID

  • Cha, Mang Kyu (Engineering & Construction Group, Samsung C&T Corporation) ;
  • Kim, Jung Ok (Institute of Construction and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Won Hee (School of Convergence & Fusion System Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Yu, Ki Yun (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2016.04.27
  • Accepted : 2016.06.08
  • Published : 2016.06.30
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Abstract

Since a sophisticated location determination technology (LDT) is necessary for accurate positioning in urban area environments, numerous studies related to the LDT using the RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology have been implemented for real-time positioning and data transferring. However, there are still lots of unsolved questions especially regarding what to use as base stations and what are corresponding results under the intrinsic complexity of alignment and configuration of components used for the RFID positioning. This study proposes the street light fixtures as base stations where the RFID receivers will be embedded for the mobile tracking scheme. As street light fixtures are usually installed at a certain distance interval, they can be used as base stations for the RFID receiver installation. Using the principle of the single row triangle network, the RFID receiver organization is determined based on the experiments such as recognition distance measurement and tag position accuracy estimation at inside and outside of the single row triangle network. The results verify that the mobile tracking scheme which uses RFID-embedded street light fixtures, suggested and configured in this study, is effective for the real-time outdoor positioning.

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