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BLE-Based Indoor Tracking System with Overlapping-Resistant IoT Solution for Tourism Applications

In this paper, an overlapping-resistant Internet of Things (IoT) solution for a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based indoor tracking system (BLE-ITS) is presented. The BLE-ITS is a promising, inexpensive alternative to the well-known GPS. It can be used in human traffic analysis, such as indoor tourist...

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Autores principales: Belka, Radosław, Deniziak, Roman Stanisław, Łukawski, Grzegorz, Pięta, Paweł
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33419019
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21020329
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author Belka, Radosław
Deniziak, Roman Stanisław
Łukawski, Grzegorz
Pięta, Paweł
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description In this paper, an overlapping-resistant Internet of Things (IoT) solution for a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based indoor tracking system (BLE-ITS) is presented. The BLE-ITS is a promising, inexpensive alternative to the well-known GPS. It can be used in human traffic analysis, such as indoor tourist facilities. Tourists or other customers are tagged by a unique MAC address assigned to a simple and energy-saving BLE beacon emitter. Their location is determined by a distributed and scalable network of popular Raspberry Pi microcomputers equipped with BLE and WiFi/Ethernet modules. Only simple triggered messages in the form of login records (LRs) are sent to a server, where the so-called path vectors (PVs) and interest profile (IPr) are set. The authors implemented the prototype and demonstrated its usefulness in a controlled environment. As it is shown in the paper, the solution is highly overlap-resistant and mitigates the so-called multilocation problem.
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spelling pubmed-78252832021-01-24 BLE-Based Indoor Tracking System with Overlapping-Resistant IoT Solution for Tourism Applications Belka, Radosław Deniziak, Roman Stanisław Łukawski, Grzegorz Pięta, Paweł Sensors (Basel) Article In this paper, an overlapping-resistant Internet of Things (IoT) solution for a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based indoor tracking system (BLE-ITS) is presented. The BLE-ITS is a promising, inexpensive alternative to the well-known GPS. It can be used in human traffic analysis, such as indoor tourist facilities. Tourists or other customers are tagged by a unique MAC address assigned to a simple and energy-saving BLE beacon emitter. Their location is determined by a distributed and scalable network of popular Raspberry Pi microcomputers equipped with BLE and WiFi/Ethernet modules. Only simple triggered messages in the form of login records (LRs) are sent to a server, where the so-called path vectors (PVs) and interest profile (IPr) are set. The authors implemented the prototype and demonstrated its usefulness in a controlled environment. As it is shown in the paper, the solution is highly overlap-resistant and mitigates the so-called multilocation problem. MDPI 2021-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7825283/ /pubmed/33419019 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21020329 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33419019
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21020329
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