Geolocalization in Smart Environment

Abstract

Nowadays, wireless indoor positioning systems have become very familiar, and widespread all over the world. They are successfully used in many applications including tracking objects e.g. Firemen who usually face life-threatening situations. Indoor positioning systems become critically convenient in such scenarios. This paper deals with the tracking of a group of firemen during their mission in order to have a real-time visibility of their coordinates. These firemen are armed by smart sensors and are, at the same time, active in a smart environment containing referenced nodes. This paper will propose two approaches: ‘Centralized Emission’, and ‘Broadcast Emission’ and will describe the proposed method to calculate the firemen’s coordinates.