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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

An IEEE802.15.4-Based System for Locating Children on Their School Commutes

Akihiko SUGIURA, Ryoichi BABA, Hideyuki KOBAYASHI

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With the increasing number of crimes and accidents in which children are becoming involved, there is a growing demand for devices to safeguard children's security by detecting their locations on their way to and from school. This paper proposes a system that uses an IEEE802.15.4-standard network to detect children's locations. To overcome the susceptibility of radio interference from nearby wireless LANs, frequency division multiplexing is applied to this IEEE802.15.4-based network, toward improving data acquisition from terminal units. The effectiveness of the system was field-tested with elementary school students who used about 400 IEEE 802.15.4-compliant terminal units. An experiment verified that the use of frequency division multiplexing in an environment where radio interference by wireless LANs is strong allowed the network to double the success rate of information communication from terminal units relative to that without frequency division multiplexing. In the experiment for detecting elementary schoolers' arrival at and departure from school, the terminal detection rate was 99% and the terminal detection rate on the designated school routes was 90%. These results prove the effectiveness of the system in detecting locations.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E93-A No.5 pp.950-957
Publication Date
2010/05/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E93.A.950
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Mobile Information Network and Personal Communications

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