Fast Real-World Implementation of a Direction of Arrival Method for Constrained Embedded IoT Devices

Tiago Troccoli, Juho Pirskanen, Aleksandr Ometov, Jari Nurmi, Ville Kaseva

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Abstract

Direction of arrival (DOA) methods are found in many applications, and in the case of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is used for indoor localization. However, the implementation of DOA in IoT devices poses a real challenge, since they are computationally expensive complex numerical methods that could easily lead to resource starvation, unacceptable execution time, and rapid depletion of batteries of small constrained embedded systems typically found in IoT networks. This paper contributes to alleviating that problem, it presents a fast low-power optimized version of a DOA method called Unitary TLS ESPRIT. The optimization exploits the radio communication system design to avoid two time-consuming executions of eigendecomposition, and instead, it applies two simple Power Method algorithms. The result is a lightweight version of ESPRIT that can attain sub-millisecond execution time. To prove the solution’s viability, we carried out experiments on energy consumption, memory footprint, accuracy, and execution time for three floating-point formats in a commercial constrained embedded IoT device series without any operating system and software layers. Experiments show the solution satisfies the hardware requirements and the floating-point precision fully operated by the Floating-Point Unit is found to be the best option.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIoT 2022 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Internet of Things 2022
PublisherACM
Pages1-8
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-9665-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jan 2023
Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
EventInternational Conference on the Internet of Things - Delft, Netherlands
Duration: 7 Nov 202210 Nov 2022

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on the Internet of Things
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityDelft
Period7/11/2210/11/22

Keywords

  • Digital signal processing
  • Firmware
  • Embedded software
  • Direction of Arrival
  • Espirit
  • IoT

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 1

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