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 |
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| Decawave Ultra Wide Band (UWB) indoor positioning system (live demo) Flanders Make |
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| Visual odometry with ground facing camera Flanders Make |
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| Sensor fusion between UWB indoor positioning system and inertial navigation system (video demo) Flanders Make |
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| Low-cost accurate GPS positioning of autonomous vehicles (video demo) Flanders Make |
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| Arduino hardware platform for indoor localisation based on ultra-wideband technology and inertial sensors Pozyx Labs |
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| Visible light communication as an enabling technology for indoor localisation KU Leuven Technology Campus Ghent |
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| DraMCo research group – KU Leuven, Research on Indoor Localization Technologies KU Leuven – Technology Campus Ghent |
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| LoRa: long-range low-power wireless communication of sensor data, combined with GPS-based localisation Gupsy |
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| High-accuracy localization with 60 GHz millimeter waves KU Leuven – ESAT – MICAS |
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| yooBee, Blooloc’s technology for accurate indoor positioning of smartphones and active tags Blooloc |
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| 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.