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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Step Length Measurements Using the Received Signal Strength Indicator.

Zanru Yang, Le Chung Tran, Farzad Safaei

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 48% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zanru YangSchool of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
Le Chung TranSchool of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2677-8721
Farzad SafaeiSchool of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4322-4448
University of Wollongong · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, portable transceivers with micro-controllers and radio frequency modules are developed to measure the received signal strength, path loss, and thus the distance between the human ankles for both indoor and outdoor environments. By comparing the experimental results and the theoretical model, a path loss model between transceivers attached to the subject's ankles is derived. With the developed experimental path loss model, the step length can be measured relatively accurately, despite the imperfections of hardware devices, with the distance errors of a centimeter level. This paper, therefore, helps address the need for a distance measurement method that has fewer health concerns, is accurate, and is less affected by occlusions and confined spaces. Our findings possibly lay a foundation for some important applications, such as the measurement of gait speed and localization of the human body parts, in wireless body area networks.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsWireless TechnologyHumansModels, TheoreticalRadio Wavesdistance measurementgait speednon-GPS localizationpath lossstep lengthwireless body area networks

Identifiers

PMID33430490
PMCPMC7827001
OpenAlexW3118578230

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