FaceME: Face-to-Machine Proximity Estimation Based on RSSI Difference for Mobile Industrial Human–Machine Interaction

In the mobile industrial human–machine interaction (HMI), to establish the data connection, the engineer has to manually select the target machine from a long list, which may lead to wrong connection and waste of time. We observe that the engineer should face to the machine during the interaction to ensure that the machine works accurately, and this characteristic makes the proximity estimation algorithm suitable to simplify the data connection. However, due to the densely deployed machines, the existing algorithms cannot provide sufficient accuracy with limited latency. In this paper, we implement a testbed to evaluate the performance in the mobile industrial HMI. Based on the experimental results, we propose the definition of received signal strength indicator (RSSI) difference and then use it to design the face-to-machine proximity estimation (FaceME) algorithm. The experimental results prove that FaceME can provide guaranteed estimation accuracy and low-time complexity.

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