An Energy-Efficient Underground Localization System Based on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Yuan, Yazhou; Chen, Cailian; Guan, Xinping; Yang, Qiuling

doi:10.3390/s150612358

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“…Bluetooth low energy (BLE) is used greatly amongst the consumer sport manufacturers due to designer’s requiring low cost and power consumption with good reliability [62,63]. Being low in energy consumption will help the sustainability of the network [64]. For wearable tech, it can work in a Piconet, where one master device controls multiple slave devices.…”

Section: Electronic Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review on Wearable Technology Sensors Used in Consumer Sport Applications

Aroganam

Manivannan

Harrison

2019

Sensors

283

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This review paper discusses the trends and projections for wearable technology in the consumer sports sector (excluding professional sport). Analyzing the role of wearable technology for different users and why there is such a need for these devices in everyday lives. It shows how different sensors are influential in delivering a variety of readings that are useful in many ways regarding sport attributes. Wearables are increasing in function, and through integrating technology, users are gathering more data about themselves. The amount of wearable technology available is broad, each having its own role to play in different industries. Inertial measuring unit (IMU) and Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors are predominantly present in sport wearables but can be programmed for different needs. In this review, the differences are displayed to show which sensors are compatible and which ones can evolve sensor technology for sport applications.

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Section: Electronic Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review on Wearable Technology Sensors Used in Consumer Sport Applications

Aroganam

Manivannan

Harrison

2019

Sensors

283

150

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“…It has been successfully applied to safety management of the world’s second largest hydropower project. Yuan et al [ 80 ] used WLAN to build a high speed heterogeneous network which was able to adapt to a variety of harsh underground environment with low energy consumption, long operating life and high positioning accuracy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Applying Sensor-Based Technology to Improve Construction Safety Management

Zhang

Cao

Zhao

2017

Sensors

122

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Construction sites are dynamic and complicated systems. The movement and interaction of people, goods and energy make construction safety management extremely difficult. Due to the ever-increasing amount of information, traditional construction safety management has operated under difficult circumstances. As an effective way to collect, identify and process information, sensor-based technology is deemed to provide new generation of methods for advancing construction safety management. It makes the real-time construction safety management with high efficiency and accuracy a reality and provides a solid foundation for facilitating its modernization, and informatization. Nowadays, various sensor-based technologies have been adopted for construction safety management, including locating sensor-based technology, vision-based sensing and wireless sensor networks. This paper provides a systematic and comprehensive review of previous studies in this field to acknowledge useful findings, identify the research gaps and point out future research directions.

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“…To overcome this problem, an automatic position refinement and tracking approach that takes into account the node placement uncertainties was proposed in [6], and it relies on ultrawidebandbased round-trip time-of-flight estimation. Time-of-flight provided by special sensor nodes combined with step detection from knee-mounted accelerometer was proposed for underground localization in [35] but only tested in laboratory and simulations. RFID localization to monitor vehicles underground was introduced in [36] using an a priori node map, i.e., it is not applicable in unknown environments.…”

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Underground Incrementally Deployed Magneto-Inductive 3-D Positioning Network

Abrudan

Xiao

Markham

et al. 2016

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing

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Underground mines are characterized by a network of intersecting tunnels and sharp turns, an environment which is particularly challenging for radiofrequency based positioning systems due to extreme multipath, non-line-of-sight propagation, and poor anchor geometry. Such systems typically require a dense grid of devices to enable 3-D positioning. Moreover, the precise position of each anchor node needs to be precisely surveyed, a particularly challenging task in underground environments. Magnetoinductive (MI) positioning, which provides 3-D position and orientation from a single transmitter and penetrates thick layers of soil and rock without loss, is a more promising approach, but so far has only been investigated in simple point-to-point contexts. In this paper, we develop a novel MI positioning approach to cover an extended underground 3-D space with unknown geometry using a rapidly deployable anchor network. The key to our approach is that the position of only a single anchor needs to be accurately surveyed-the positions of all secondary anchors are determined using an iterative refinement process using measurements obtained from receivers within the network. This avoids the particularly challenging and time-intensive task in an underground environment of accurately surveying the positions of all of the transmitters. We also demonstrate how measurements obtained from multiple transmitters can be fused to improve localization accuracy. We validate the proposed approach in a man-made cave and show that, with a portable system that took 5 min to deploy, we were able to provide accurate through-the-earth location capability to nodes placed along a suite of tunnels. IndexTerms-Localization, magneto-inductive (MI), underground.

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An Energy-Efficient Underground Localization System Based on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Review on Wearable Technology Sensors Used in Consumer Sport Applications

Review on Wearable Technology Sensors Used in Consumer Sport Applications

Applying Sensor-Based Technology to Improve Construction Safety Management

Underground Incrementally Deployed Magneto-Inductive 3-D Positioning Network

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