The growing commercial interest in an indoor location-based service (LBS) has stimulated
the development of diverse indoor positioning systems. However, despite extensive …

Recently, there has been a rapidly emerging demand for localization technologies to
provide various location-based services in indoor environments, such as smart buildings …

Ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning system has gained much attention in the field of indoor
localization due to its various advantages. The narrow pulse nature of UWB signal results in …

In recent years, indoor positioning has emerged as a critical function in many end-user
applications; including military, civilian, disaster relief and peacekeeping missions. In …

Positioning based on Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communication promises multipath
immunity, high resolution, and strong wall penetration. Hence, many academic and …

Indoor localization has been a hot area of research for many years. There are many
research proposals and commercial products which can accurately locate moving objects …

Indoor localization has many applications in the context of smart buildings that interact with
objects and humans. Due to their resilience to multipath fading, high penetration rate and …

Enabling reliable indoor localization can facilitate several new applications akin to how
outdoor localization systems, such as GPS, have facilitated. Currently, a few key hurdles …

In this thesis, extensive experiments are firstly conducted to characterize the performance of
using the emerging IEEE 802.15. 4-2011 ultra wideband (UWB) for indoor localization, and …

Indoor localization systems have a variety of applications such as tracking of assets, indoor
robot navigation, and monitoring of people (eg patients) in hospitals or at home. Global …