Indoor Position System Based on BitCloud Stack for Ambient Living and Smart Buildings

Abstract

Abstract.Nowadays there is a research on ambient living and smart building applications to make people life more confortable. This kind of applications, in general, requires the position where a person is in a building to act according it and to any physical parameters that are measured from the person, to determine, for instance, if the air condition has to be switched on or off, the room temperature has to be put up or down or the music has to be changed from classical to pop, or vice versa. This paper presents an indoor position solution based on BitCloud Stack, a full-featured, second generation embedded software stack from Atmel.

Fingerprint Indoor Position System Based on Openmac

“…Although results were as expected as shown in (Medina, 2011), this solution has two drawbacks, in order to fix it correctly:…”

“…We implemented (Medina, 2011) a system similar to MoteTrack, a signature-based localization scheme, but using other motes, Meshnetics´ one (http://www.meshnetics.com/), that uses different RCB (MCU and transceiver) and, also, different software, i. e., the BitCloud Stack, a ZigBee PRO certified platform. That system was tested and had the same precision as MoteTrack, but it has some drawbacks that are going to be solved using the OpenMAC indeed of BitCloud Stack, both embedded software developed by Atmel(Atmel have acquired MeshNetics´s ZigBee Intellectual Properties).…”

Indoor Position System Based on a Zigbee Network

“…We have developed [13] a similar system to the one presented in [12], called MoteTrack, which localized a subject in a room of a building. The prototype uses different motes, Meshnetics´ ones, with other RCB (microcontroller and transceiver) and, also, different software, the BitCloud Stack 1 [15], a ZigBee PRO certified platform [14], an application layer stack, not a MAC (Medium Access Control) layer stack.…”