• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new indoor location recognition system using a ZigBee network and a global positioning system(GPS). The proposed location recognition system applies GPS values that are mainly used for outdoor location recognition, to indoor location recognition; hence the techniques conventionally separated for the indoor and outdoor location recognition are integrated into one location recognition technique. The proposed system recognizes a location using the distance between nodes. Although the distance between nodes can be calculated by measuring the strength of the received ZigBee signals, generally the measured distance is not accurate and has high error rates since the strength of the ZigBee signals is different depending on the distance. In order to reduce the error rate, we have subdivided the output power of the received ZigBee signals into five levels. When a moving node generates a signal, each fixed node transmits the received signal strength and its own GPS information to other nodes, so the moving node can find its own accurate location in terms of the received signals.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.327-332
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• 2017

As Internet of Things (IoT) technology advances, there is a growing demand for location-based services (LBSs) to identify users' mobility and identity. The initial LBS system was mainly used to measure position information by measuring the phase of a signal transmitted from a global positioning system (GPS) satellite or by measuring distance to a satellite by tracking the code of a carrier signal. However, the use of GPS satellites is ineffective, because it is difficult to receive satellite signals indoors. Therefore, research on wireless communications systems like ultra-wide band (UWB), radio frequency identification (RFID), and ZigBee are being actively pursued for location recognition technology that can be utilized in an indoor environment. In this paper, we propose an LBS system that includes the 2.45GHz band for chirp spread spectrum (CSS), and the 3.1-10.6GHz band and the 250-750MHz bands for UWB using the IEEE 802.15.4a standard for low power-based location recognition. As a result, we confirmed that the 2.45GHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band RF transceiver and the ranging function can be realized in the hardware and has 0dBm output power.