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<p>Location awareness is important in health care. One way of generating this is a low-frequency radio frequency identification (RFID) location system that has been developed. The system tracks RFID tags with a quad antenna matrix that is placed under the floor surface. The tag can be also used to receive alarms and send acknowledgements via a ZigBee network. This article discusses the requirements of this kind of a tag, its structure, and its location accuracy. The demonstrated RFID system can locate people and items inside the building with an accuracy of 1.1 ± 0.5 m (S. D.).</p>
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Location awareness is important in health care. One way of generating this is a low-frequency radio frequency identification (RFID) location system that has been developed. The system tracks RFID tags with a quad antenna matrix that is placed under the floor surface. The tag can be also used to receive alarms and send acknowledgements via a ZigBee network. This article discusses the requirements of this kind of a tag, its structure, and its location accuracy. The demonstrated RFID system can locate people and items inside the building with an accuracy of 1.1 ± 0.5 m (S. D.).

Low-Frequency Localization And Identification System With Zigbee Network

Aalto University, School of Science and Technology

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Location awareness is important in health care. One way of generating this is a low-frequency radio frequency identification (RFID) location system that has...

Low-Frequency Localization And Identification System With Zigbee Network

Published Online: Dec 12, 2017

Page range: 75 - 93

Received: Nov 10, 2010

Accepted: Feb 01, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-427

© 2011 A. Ropponen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.