Noise reduction for variance-based device-free localization and tracking

Human motion in the vicinity of a wireless link causes variations in the link received signal strength (RSS). Device-free localization (DFL) systems, such as variance-based radio tomographic imaging (VRTI) use these RSS variations in a wireless network to detect, locate and track people in the area of the network, even through walls. However, intrinsic motion, such as branches moving in the wind, rotating or vibrating machinery, also causes RSS variations which degrade the performance of a DFL system. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a subspace decomposition method subspace variance-based radio tomography (SubVRT) to reduce the impact of the variations caused by intrinsic motion. Experimental results show that the SubVRT algorithm reduces localization root mean squared error (RMSE) by 41%. In addition, the Kalman filter tracking results from SubVRT have 97% of errors less than 1.4 m, a 65% improvement compared to tracking results from VRTI.

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