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Indoor Positioning System Based on Global Positioning System Signals with Down- and Up-Converters in 433 MHz ISM Band

Uzun, Abdulkadir
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Ghani, Firas Abdul
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Ahmadi Najafabadi, Amir Mohsen  
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June 25, 2021
Sensors

In this paper, an indoor positioning system using Global Positioning System (GPS) signals in the 433 MHz Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) band is proposed, and an experimental demonstration of how the proposed system operates under both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight conditions on a building floor is presented. The proposed method is based on down-converting (DC) repeaters and an up-converting (UC) receiver. The down-conversion is deployed to avoid the restrictions on the use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) repeaters, to achieve higher output power, and to expose the GPS signals to lower path loss. The repeaters receive outdoor GPS signals at 1575.42 MHz (L1 band), down-convert them to the 433 MHz ISM band, then amplify and retransmit them to the indoor environment. The front end up-converter is combined with an off-the-shelf GPS receiver. When GPS signals at 433 MHz are received by the up-converting receiver, it then amplifies and up-converts these signals back to the L1 frequency. Subsequently, the off-the-shelf GPS receiver calculates the pseudo-ranges. The raw data are then sent from the receiver over a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi link to a remote computer for data processing and indoor position estimation. Each repeater also has an attenuator to adjust its amplification level so that each repeater transmits almost equal signal levels in order to prevent jamming of the off-the-shelf GPS receiver. Experimental results demonstrate that the indoor position of a receiver can be found with sub-meter accuracy under both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight conditions. The estimated position was found to be 54 and 98 cm away from the real position, while the 50% circular error probable (CEP) of the collected samples showed a radius of 3.3 and 4 m, respectively, for line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight cases.

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DOI
10.3390/s21134338
Author(s)
Uzun, Abdulkadir
Ghani, Firas Abdul
Ahmadi Najafabadi, Amir Mohsen  
Yenigün, Hüsnü
Tekin, İbrahim
Date Issued

2021-06-25

Published in
Sensors
Volume

21

Issue

13

Article Number

4338

Subjects

down-conversion

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GPS

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indoor positioning

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navigation

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RF repeaters

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up-conversion

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REVIEWED

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OTHER

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March 20, 2023
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