The Internet of Things (IoT) enables numerous business opportunities in fields as diverse as
e-health, smart cities, smart homes, among many others. The IoT incorporates multiple long …

A global localization system combining odometry data with radio frequency identification
(RFID) readings is proposed. RFID tags are placed at the ceiling of the environment and can …

The number of seniors and other people needing daily assistance continues to increase, but
the current human resources available to achieve this in the coming years will certainly be …

With the advancement of low-power and low-cost wireless technologies in the past few
years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been growing rapidly in numerous areas of Industry …

One of the most challenging limitations for the elderly and/or the visually impaired people is
the inability of self-navigation in unfamiliar indoor environments. Numerous existing indoor …

This paper proposes a method that enables self-recognition of a mobile vehicle's current
position by utilizing ultrahigh frequency (UHF) passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) …

The smart home paradigm is a promising new trend of research aiming to propose an
alternative to postpone the institutionalization of cognitively-impaired silver-aged people …

Passive UHF RFID tags are well matched to robots' needs. Unlike lowfrequency (LF) and
high-frequency (HF) RFID tags, passive UHF RFID tags are readable from across a room …

Numerous ubiquitous computing applications depend on the ability to locate objects as a
key functionality. We show that Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can be …

In this paper a global localization problem of a robot moving in a known environment is
considered. The environment is equipped with a relatively sparse set of passive RFID …