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Sigfox and LoRaWAN Datasets for Fingerprint Localization in Large Urban and Rural Areas

Version 1 : Received: 16 March 2018 / Approved: 19 March 2018 / Online: 19 March 2018 (05:38:26 CET)

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Aernouts, M.; Berkvens, R.; Van Vlaenderen, K.; Weyn, M. Sigfox and LoRaWAN Datasets for Fingerprint Localization in Large Urban and Rural Areas. Data 2018, 3, 13. Aernouts, M.; Berkvens, R.; Van Vlaenderen, K.; Weyn, M. Sigfox and LoRaWAN Datasets for Fingerprint Localization in Large Urban and Rural Areas. Data 2018, 3, 13.

Abstract

Because of the increasing relevance of the Internet of Things and location-based services, researchers are evaluating wireless positioning techniques, such as fingerprinting, on Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) communication. In order to evaluate fingerprinting in large outdoor environments, extensive, time-consuming measurement campaigns need to be conducted to create useful datasets. This paper presents three LPWAN datasets which are collected in large-scale urban and rural areas. The goal is to provide the research community with a tool to evaluate fingerprinting algorithms in large outdoor environments. During a period of three months, numerous mobile devices periodically obtained location data via a GPS receiver which was transmitted via a Sigfox or LoRaWAN message. Together with network information, this location data is stored in the appropriate LPWAN dataset. The first results of our basic fingerprinting implementation, which is also clarified in this paper, indicate a mean location estimation error of 214.58 m for the rural Sigfox dataset, 688.97 m for the urban Sigfox dataset and 398.40 m for the urban LoRaWAN dataset. In the future, we will enlarge our current datasets and use them to evaluate and optimize our fingerprinting methods. Also, we intend to collect additional datasets for Sigfox, LoRaWAN and NB-IoT.

Keywords

IoT; LPWAN; Sigfox; LoRaWAN; localization; fingerprinting

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications

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