trilaterate

trilaterate (third-person singular simple present trilaterates, present participle trilaterating, simple past and past participle trilaterated)

1. To locate by means of trilateration
   • 2016, Thorbjörn Jörger, Fabian Höflinger, Gerd Ulrich Gamm, Leonhard M. Reindl, “Wireless distance estimation with low-power standard components in wireless sensor nodes”, in arXiv‎:

     Also, the nodes overall attenuation and output power has to be calibrated and interference and multipath effects appear in closed environments. Another possibility to trilaterate the position of a sensor node is the time of flight measurement.