DecaWave : Exploring State of the Art Commercial Localization

In developing technology for indoor localization, we have recently begun exploring commercially available state of the art localization technologies. The DecaWave DW1000 is a new ultra-wideband transceiver that advertises high-precision indoor pairwise ranging between modules with errors as low as 10 cm. We are currently exploring this technology to automate obtaining anchor ground-truth locations for other indoor localization systems. Anchor positioning is a constrained version of indoor localization, with minimal time constraints and static devices. However, as we intend to include the DW1000 hardware on our own localization system, this provides an opportunity for gathering performance data for a commerciallyenabled localization system deployed by a third-party for comparison purposes. We do not claim the ranging hardware as our original work, but we do provide a hardware implementation, an infrastructure for converting pairwise measurements to locations, and the front-end for viewing the results.