THESIS vision is to demonstrate the ability and applicability of the millimetre-wave (mmWave) radio technology towards achieving high precision 3D positioning. mmWave technology is defining a new era in wireless communication by providing very wide bandwidths. It is currently being used in some Wi-Fi systems (e.g., IEEE802.11ad) and is planned to be used in 5G and beyond-5G communications in the near future as the it offers much more flexibility to use wider bandwidths and hence achieving much higher data rates and capacity. This very large availability of bandwidth, together with the use of massive phase array antennas that allow better time resolution and estimation of the signal phase could be used for achieving the desired high accuracy. Additionally, positioning research so far was mostly focused in 2D, however the 3D nature of these days’ smart applications is making the need for 3D positioning even more predominant. The project adopts a System Engineering approach to prove this concept/technology by developing prototypes and validating them experimentally in the lab. In this context the project aims to contribute towards the ongoing research efforts in this direction to achieve cm-level accuracy. The goal is to validate and assess the performance of the developed 3D positioning techniques and assess their performance against set KPIs as well as the applicability of mmWave for this purpose.
Funding Body: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation
Project ID: CONCEPT/0722/0031
Duration:: 1st May 2023 - 31st January 2024 (9 months)
Funding Received: 39.952,74 Euros
Host Organization: Center of Interdisciplinary Science Promotion and Innovative Research Exploration (InSPIRE)
Coordinator: - Dr Marios Raspopoulos
Researchers: - Dr Stelios Ioannou, Mr Andrey Sesyuk
Project Ends
Paper titled ‘Radar-based millimeter-Wave sensing for accurate 3D Indoor Positioning - Potentials and Challenges’ gets accepted to the Journal on Indoor Seamless Positioning and Navigation
IPIN Paper. gets published on IEEExplore
Project Team participates to the 13th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) was organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS with the support of researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences.
Project Starts