Real-time Locating System - Types of Technologies Used

Types of Technologies Used

There is a wide variety of systems concepts and designs to provide real-time locating.

  • Active radio frequency identification (Active RFID)
  • Active radio frequency identification - infrared hybrid (Active RFID-IR)
  • Infrared (IR)
  • Optical locating,
  • Low-frequency signpost identification
  • Semi-active radio frequency identification (semi-active RFID)
  • Radio beacon,
  • Ultrasound Identification (US-ID)
  • Ultrasonic ranging (US-RTLS)
  • Ultra-wideband (UWB)
  • Wide-over-narrow band
  • Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN, Wi-Fi)
  • Bluetooth,
  • Clustering in noisy ambience,
  • Bivalent systems

A general model for selection of the best solution for a locating problem has been constructed at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Many of these references do not comply with the definitions given in international standardization with ISO/IEC 19762-5 and ISO/IEC 24730-1. However, some aspects of real-time performance are served and aspects of locating are addressed in context of absolute coordinates.

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