Performance analysis of an RFID-based 3D indoor positioning system combining scene analysis and neural network methods

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to improve localization accuracy of an active Radio Frequency Identification, RFID tag, in 3D indoor space. The paper presents a new RFID based 3D Indoor Positioning System which shows performance improvement. The proposed positioning system combines two methods: the Scene Analysis technique and Artificial Neural Network. The results of both simulation using Log-Distance Path Loss Model and physical experiments validate that the proposed positioning system improves the localization accuracy of an RFID tag compared with well-known Scene Analysis technique solution