20th Work Meeting: Wireless Technologies for Indoor/Outdoor Localisation

8 December 2015 at imec – Leuven

Wireless Technologies for Indoor/Outdoor Localisation

Join this 20th workshop of the Wireless Community and get an extensive overview of existing and emerging technologies for indoor/outdoor localisation and tracking.

Experts from both industry and academia will explain the concepts behind the localisation technologies such as received signal strengths, time-of-flight, angle-of-arrival, inertial sensors, etc.
You will get further insights via several live demos.

We will cover the more common technologies, such as those based on WiFi and Bluetooth signals, but also address localisation based on  60 GHz signals, (ultra)sound signals, and visible light. Ranging with mm-wave radar signals will be presented as well.

Finally, we will discuss metrics for an objective comparison of localisation technologies, and explain you how to select the best localisation system for a specific environment. We illustrate this by comparing some existing technologies.
We briefly discuss ongoing standardisation efforts for performance evaluation.

Our speakers will focus on the concepts and the technology, but applications will be touched as well.

Location

imec, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee

Tentative Programme

Confirmed presentations and demos:

 

11:30 Welcome with sandwich lunch
12:15 Introduction
Kris Hermus, Coordiantor Wireless Community & Innovation Program Manager, imec
12:35 Accurate Positioning : Discrepancy between Technology and Reality
Frederic Stubbe, CTO, Essensium
 13:00 yooBee, Blooloc’s technology for accurate indoor positioning of smartphones and active tags
Dirk Callaerts, CEO, BlooLoc
 13:20 Ultra-low power GPS-tracker with long-range communication for IoT applications
Kristoff Van Rattinghe, CEO, Sensolus
13:40 Localization of unknown sound sources using low-power wireless acoustic sensor networks
Geoffrey Ottoy, KU Leuven Technology Campus Ghent
14:00 Next-generation positioning: a new Wi-Fi standard amendment in the making
Andre Bourdoux, Principal Scientist, imec
14:20 Guided demo tour
Ultra-low power GPS-tracker with long-range communication for IoT applications
Sensolus
Decawave Ultra Wide Band (UWB) indoor positioning system (live demo)
Flanders Make
Visual odometry with ground facing camera
Flanders Make
Sensor fusion between UWB indoor positioning system and inertial navigation system (video demo)
Flanders Make
Low-cost accurate GPS positioning of autonomous vehicles (video demo)
Flanders Make
Arduino hardware platform for indoor localisation based on ultra-wideband technology and inertial sensors
Pozyx Labs
Visible light communication as an enabling technology for indoor localisation
KU Leuven Technology Campus Ghent
DraMCo research group – KU Leuven, Research on Indoor Localization Technologies
KU Leuven – Technology Campus Ghent
LoRa: long-range low-power wireless communication of sensor data, combined with GPS-based localisation
Gupsy
High-accuracy localization with 60 GHz millimeter waves
KU Leuven – ESAT – MICAS
yooBee, Blooloc’s technology for accurate indoor positioning of smartphones and active tags
Blooloc
15:00 Coffee break & free demo visit
15:30 Arduino hardware platform for indoor localisation based on ultra-wideband technology and inertial sensors
Samuel Van de Velde, Founder, Pozyx Labs
15:50 Sensor Fusion for Indoor Navigation and Tracking of Automated Guided Vehicles
Risang Gatot Yudanto, Senior Project Engineer, Flanders Make
16:10 Visible Light Communication as an Enabling Technology for Indoor Localization
Nobby Stevens, Professor, KU Leuven Technology Campus Ghent
16:30 How accurate are localisation solutions in practice? From objective metrics to full automatic benchmarking
Eli De Poorter, Professor, UGent – iMinds
17:05 Conclusions
17:15 Demo session – Networking reception with sandwiches
19:30 End of the workshop
Registration

Registration has been closed on December 7. We are fully booked.