Authors:
Joseph Merhej
1
;
Jacques Bou Demerjian
1
;
Karla Fares
1
;
Jacques Bou Abdo
2
and
Abdallah Makhoul
3
Affiliations:
1
LARIFA-EDST Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Lebanese University, Fanar and Lebanon
;
2
Department of Computer Science, Notre Dame University, Deir el Qamar and Lebanon
;
3
FEMTO-ST Institute, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Belfort and France
Keyword(s):
Wireless Sensor Network, Collaborative Wireless Sensor Network, Localization, RSSI, Ultrasound.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Sensor Networks
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.