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Simulating a Combination of TDoA and AoA Localization for LoRaWAN

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Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC 2019)

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Location-based services are an essential aspect of many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Due to low power requirements that these applications impose on their end devices, classic GNSS solutions are replaced by wireless localization via Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), e.g. Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) localization with LoRaWAN. Usually, at least four gateways are required to obtain a reliable location estimate with TDoA. In this research, we propose to combine TDoA with Angle of Arrival (AoA) in a probabilistic way, using only two gateways. Our simulations demonstrate a 548 m mean error using TDoA between two gateways. Moreover, we reduce this mean error to 399 m when a single AoA estimate is added to the TDoA estimate.

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    For this research, we started from existing source code to simulate multilateration based on timing information. The repository can be found at https://github.com/jurasofish/multilateration.

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    Michiel Aernouts, Noori BniLam, Rafael Berkvens & Maarten Weyn

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Aernouts, M., BniLam, N., Berkvens, R., Weyn, M. (2020). Simulating a Combination of TDoA and AoA Localization for LoRaWAN. In: Barolli, L., Hellinckx, P., Natwichai, J. (eds) Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. 3PGCIC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 96. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33509-0_71

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