Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT Technology
A novel indoor positioning system is presented in the paper. Similarly to the camera-based solutions, it is based on visual detection, but it conceptually differs from the classical approaches. First, the objects are marked by LEDs, and second, a special sensing unit is applied, instead of a camera,...
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| description | A novel indoor positioning system is presented in the paper. Similarly to the camera-based solutions, it is based on visual detection, but it conceptually differs from the classical approaches. First, the objects are marked by LEDs, and second, a special sensing unit is applied, instead of a camera, to track the motion of the markers. This sensing unit realizes a modified pinhole camera model, where the light-sensing area is fixed and consists of a small number of sensing elements (photodiodes), and it is the hole that can be moved. The markers are tracked by controlling the motion of the hole, such that the light of the LEDs always hits the photodiodes. The proposed concept has several advantages: Apart from its low computational demands, it is insensitive to the disturbing ambient light. Moreover, as every component of the system can be realized by simple and inexpensive elements, the overall cost of the system can be kept low. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-975087914fae4ec4ba5135ad245b344a2022-12-22T02:52:51ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-12-011611910.3390/s16010019s16010019Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT TechnologyIstván Gőzse0Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Science, Kende St. 13–17, 1111 Budapest, HungaryA novel indoor positioning system is presented in the paper. Similarly to the camera-based solutions, it is based on visual detection, but it conceptually differs from the classical approaches. First, the objects are marked by LEDs, and second, a special sensing unit is applied, instead of a camera, to track the motion of the markers. This sensing unit realizes a modified pinhole camera model, where the light-sensing area is fixed and consists of a small number of sensing elements (photodiodes), and it is the hole that can be moved. The markers are tracked by controlling the motion of the hole, such that the light of the LEDs always hits the photodiodes. The proposed concept has several advantages: Apart from its low computational demands, it is insensitive to the disturbing ambient light. Moreover, as every component of the system can be realized by simple and inexpensive elements, the overall cost of the system can be kept low.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/1/19optical sensorsoptical indoor positioningTFT technology |
| spellingShingle | István Gőzse Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT Technology Sensors optical sensors optical indoor positioning TFT technology |
| title | Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT Technology |
| title_full | Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT Technology |
| title_fullStr | Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT Technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT Technology |
| title_short | Optical Indoor Positioning System Based on TFT Technology |
| title_sort | optical indoor positioning system based on tft technology |
| topic | optical sensors optical indoor positioning TFT technology |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/1/19 |
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