High Precision Indoor Localization with Dummy Antennas -- An Experimental Study

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that extending antennas in a spatial domain can significantly improve indoor localization accuracy at low cost, achieving sub-meter precision with a single access point.

Contribution

The study introduces a low-cost spatial domain extension scheme with dummy antennas to enhance indoor localization accuracy, verified through experimental results.

Findings

Localization accuracy improves with more antennas.

Achieved sub-meter accuracy using a single access point.

Spatial and angular domain extensions enhance performance.

Abstract

With the rising demand for indoor localization, high precision technique-based fingerprints became increasingly important nowadays. The newest advanced localization system makes effort to improve localization accuracy in the time or frequency domain, for example, the UWB localization technique can achieve centimeter-level accuracy but have a high cost. Therefore, we present a spatial domain extension-based scheme with low cost and verify the effectiveness of antennas extension in localization accuracy. In this paper, we achieve sub-meter level localization accuracy using a single AP by extending three radio links of the modified laptops to more antennas. Moreover, the experimental results show that the localization performance is superior as the number of antennas increases with the help of spatial domain extension and angular domain assisted.