Installation cost reduction

Automatically determining the positions of anchors can mitigate the cumbersome and costly nature of manual efforts. The manual method requires measuring the relative position of each anchor node individually, a task that becomes increasingly tedious with the addition of more nodes. Moreover, it is susceptible to measurement errors. To overcome these challenges, self-calibration techniques have been introduced. These methods automatically position the anchor nodes based on available information. Presently, we provide two self-calibration algorithms, which are displayed below.

Name Initial position of anchor positions Suitable for real-time detection of topology changes Uses Tag
Multi-hop self-calibration X O O
Tag-assisted self-calibration O X X