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RFID-Based Positioning System for Telematics Location-Aware Applications

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Positioning accuracy is an essential factor for many location-aware applications. This study designs an RFID-based positioning system for telematics location-aware applications. If a passenger in a vehicle loses a wallet with an RFID tag attached, then an RFID reader can be adopted to detect the tag, and thus find the wallet. Performance analysis results indicate that the proposed RFID-based positioning system has a distance error of less than 1.64 m, and an accuracy rate at least 13.24% higher than the common LANDMARC approach. These results indicate that the RFID operations in telematics positioning applications have high-accuracy location-awareness.

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  1. Yueh-Min Huang

    Present address: Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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  1. Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yi-Wei Ma

  2. Department of Applied Geoinformatics, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan

    Chin-Feng Lai & Yueh-Min Huang

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

    Jenq-Muh Hsu

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Nong-Kun Chen

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Ma, YW., Lai, CF., Hsu, JM. et al. RFID-Based Positioning System for Telematics Location-Aware Applications. Wireless Pers Commun 59, 95–108 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-0192-4

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