SpinLight: A high accuracy and robust light positioning system for indoor applications

Bo Xie; Guang Tan; Tian He

doi:10.1145/2809695.2809713

SpinLight: A high accuracy and robust light positioning system for indoor applications

Bo Xie, Guang Tan, Tian He

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

This paper presents SpinLight, an indoor positioning system that uses infrared LED lamps as signal transmitters, and light sensors as receivers. The main idea is to divide the space into spatial beams originating from the light source, and identify each beam with a unique timed sequence of light signals. This sequence is created by a coded shade that covers and rotates around the LED, blocking the light or allowing it to pass through according to pre-defined patterns. The receiver, equipped with a light sensor, is able to determine its spatial beam by detecting the light signals, followed by optimization schemes to refine its location within that beam. We present both 2D and 3D localization designs, demonstrated by a prototype implementation. Experiments show that SpinLight produces a median location error of 3.8 cm, with a 95th percentile of 6.8 cm. The receiver design is very low power and thus can operate for months to years from a button coin battery.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	211-223
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450336314
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2809695.2809713
State	Published - Nov 1 2015
Event	13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Nov 1 2015 → Nov 4 2015

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Name	SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

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Other	13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	11/1/15 → 11/4/15

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful commengts, and our shepherd, Koen Langendoen, whose feedback helped improve the paper and its presentation. Guang Tan was supported by NSFC under grant 61379135, Shenzhen Basic Research Funds under grant JCYJ20140610151856733, and Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talents Innovation and Entrepreneurship Funds No. KQCX20140520154115026.

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© 2015 ACM.

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Indoor positioning
Light
Sensing

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Xie, B., Tan, G., & He, T. (2015). SpinLight: A high accuracy and robust light positioning system for indoor applications. In SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (pp. 211-223). (SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2809695.2809713

SpinLight: A high accuracy and robust light positioning system for indoor applications. / Xie, Bo; Tan, Guang; He, Tian.
SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. p. 211-223 (SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Xie, B, Tan, G & He, T 2015, SpinLight: A high accuracy and robust light positioning system for indoor applications. in SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 211-223, 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 11/1/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2809695.2809713

Xie B, Tan G, He T. SpinLight: A high accuracy and robust light positioning system for indoor applications. In SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2015. p. 211-223. (SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems). doi: 10.1145/2809695.2809713

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