Multi-channel two-way time of flight sensor network ranging

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Pettinato;Niklas Wirström;Joakim Eriksson;Thiemo Voigt

  • Affiliations:
  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden;Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden;Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden;Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • EWSN'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Two-way time of flight (ToF) ranging is one of the most interesting approaches for localization in wireless sensor networking since previous ToF ranging approaches using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices have achieved good accuracy. The COTS-based approaches were, however, evaluated only in line-of-sight conditions. In this paper, we extend ToF ranging using multiple IEEE 802.15.4 channels. Our results demonstrate that with multiple channels we can achieve good accuracy even in non line-of-sight conditions. Furthermore, our measurements suggest that the variance between different channels serves as a good estimate of the accuracy of the measurements, which can be valuable information for applications that require localization information.