Paper Info
Title
Enhancing iBeacon Based Micro-Location with Particle Filtering.
Abstract
The advent of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled Beacons is poised to revolutionize the indoor contextual aware services to the users. Due to the lower energy consumption and higher throughput, BLE could therefore be an integral pillar of an Internet of Things (IoT) Location Based Service (LBS). Tracking a user with high accuracy is known as Micro-Location. This is a requirement of many IoT user-centric applications for indoor environments. Although several technologies have been used for tracking purposes, the accuracy has always been a serious issue. At the same time, each vendor would install different technologies. In this work, we propose to use the cutting-edge and commercially available Apple's iBeacon protocol and iBeacon BLE sensors for micro-location. We propose to leverage a control theoretic approach, namely particle filtering, in order to increase the tracking accuracy in an indoor environment. We performed extensive experiments and our results show that the proposed beacon based micro-location system can be used to locate a user in an indoor environment with an error as low as 0.27 meters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7417504
IEEE Global Communications Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
iBeacon,Internet of Things,Micro-Location,Particle Filtering
Beacon,Computer science,Particle filter,Filter (signal processing),iBeacon,Location-based service,Computer network,Real-time computing,Throughput,Energy consumption,Bluetooth,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2334-0983
11
0.77
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Faheem Zafari113110.64
Ioannis Papapanagiotou213815.43