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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Using Smart Virtual-Sensor Nodes to Improve the Robustness of Indoor Localization Systems.

Guilherme Pedrollo, Andréa Aparecida Konzen, Wagner Ourique de Morais, Edison Pignaton de Freitas

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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 4 papers.

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Guilherme PedrolloSchool of Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90040-060, Brazil.
Andréa Aparecida KonzenSchool of Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90040-060, Brazil.
Wagner Ourique de MoraisSchool of Information Technology, Halmstad University, 301 18 Halmstad, Sweden.
Edison Pignaton de FreitasSchool of Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90040-060, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-4655-8889

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 309505/2020-8Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 420109/2018-8
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Abstract

Young, older, frail, and disabled individuals can require some form of monitoring or assistance, mainly when critical situations occur, such as falling and wandering. Healthcare facilities are increasingly interested in e-health systems that can detect and respond to emergencies on time. Indoor localization is an essential function in such e-health systems, and it typically relies on wireless sensor networks (WSN) composed of fixed and mobile nodes. Nodes in the network can become permanently or momentarily unavailable due to, for example, power failures, being out of range, and wrong placement. Consequently, unavailable sensors not providing data can compromise the system's overall function. One approach to overcome the problem is to employ virtual sensors as replacements for unavailable sensors and generate synthetic but still realistic data. This paper investigated the viability of modelling and artificially reproducing the path of a monitored target tracked by a WSN with unavailable sensors. Particularly, the case with just a single sensor was explored. Based on the coordinates of the last measured positions by the unavailable node, a neural network was trained with 4 min of not very linear data to reproduce the behavior of a sensor that become unavailable for about 2 min. Such an approach provided reasonably successful results, especially for areas close to the room's entrances and exits, which are critical for the security monitoring of patients in healthcare facilities.

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Neural Networks, ComputerWireless TechnologyHumansindoor localizationmachine learningneural networksvirtual sensorwireless sensor network

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PMID34204021
PMCPMC8201260

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