An Interactive Real-Time Locating System Based on Bluetooth Low-Energy Beacon Network
學年 106
學期 2
出版（發表）日期 2018-05-21
作品名稱 An Interactive Real-Time Locating System Based on Bluetooth Low-Energy Beacon Network
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 You-Wei Lin; Chi-Yi Lin
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出版者
著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Sensors 18(5), 1637(17 pages)
摘要 The ubiquity of Bluetooth-enabled smartphones and peripherals has brought tremendous convenience to our daily life. In recent years, Bluetooth beacons have also been gaining popularity in implementing a variety of innovative location-based services such as self-guided systems in exhibition centers. However, the broadcast-based beacon technology can only provide unidirectional communication. In case smartphone users would like to respond to the beacon messages, they have to rely on their own mobile Internet connections to send the information back to the backend system. Nevertheless, mobile Internet services may not be always available or too costly. In this work, we develop a real-time locating system based only on the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology to support interactive communications by combining the broadcast and mesh topology options to extend the applicability of beacon solutions. Specifically, we turn the smartphone into a beacon device and augment the beacon devices with the capability of forming a mesh network. The implementation result shows that our beacon devices can detect the presence of specific users at specific locations, and then the presence state can be sent to the application server via the relay of beacon devices. Moreover, the application server can send personalized location-based messages to the users, again via the relay of beacon devices. With the capability of relaying messages between the beacon devices, it would be convenient for developers to implement a variety of interactive applications such as tracking VIP customers at the airport, or tracking an elder with Alzheimer’s disease in the neighborhood.
關鍵字 Bluetooth low energy;location-based service;mesh network;internet of things
語言 en
ISSN 1424-8220
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 SCI EI
產學合作
通訊作者 Chi-Yi Lin
審稿制度 是
國別 CHE
公開徵稿
出版型式 ,電子版
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