Patent ID: 8269643

Claim:
A positioning and navigation method for utilizing a mobile apparatus and a plurality of identification tags deployed in an area, wherein each identification tag has a position data, said method comprising steps of: accessing position data of a first identification tag in a first radio frequency (RF) of the identification tags; and generating position information of the mobile apparatus according to the position data of the first identification tag and a geographic data of the area; wherein, the position data of each identification tag represents a coordinate location of each identification tag in the geographic data of the area; and wherein the step of accessing the position data of the first identification tag of the identification tags comprises: detecting a second identification tag in a second radio frequency; and if the second identification tag is present, accessing the position data of the second identification tag ; otherwise, accessing the position data of the first identification tag; wherein the first radio frequency is ultra high frequency (UHF) band, and the second radio frequency is high frequency (HF) band.