Paper Info
Title
Scalable control system for bluetooth mobile devices
Abstract
Bluetooth (BT) devices are usually grouped in a star topology in small clusters called personal area networks (PANs). The population of BT PANs is limited to 8 devices, but setups in entertainment theme parks or interactive installations might want to employ a larger number of mobile devices. In those scenarios, only off-theshelf devices, without any hardware modifications, can be accepted, so a PAN must be extended to become a low-cost cellular network for consumer products. We explore the design of such a cellular network of BT nodes. The paper discusses the practical aspects of a wireless control system and reports the experience obtained from implementing a proof-of-concept system. The prototype implementation is based on BT dongles, which act as cellular base stations, and Sphero robotic balls, which are low-cost consumer mobile robots. This wireless control system allows the robots to be controlled by a single device; it is modular and scalable and offers handover and localization services typical of common cellular networks.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
2016 12th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS)
localization services,handover,low-cost consumer mobile robots,Sphero robotic balls,cellular base stations,BT dongles,wireless control system,BT nodes,consumer products,low-cost cellular network,off-the-shelf devices,interactive installations,entertainment theme parks,BT PAN,personal area networks,star topology,BT devices,Bluetooth devices,Bluetooth mobile devices,scalable control system
Field
DocType
Citations 
Population,Base station,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile device,Cellular network,Bluetooth,Mobile robot,Handover,Embedded system
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giorgio Corbellini1869.94
Lukas Kuster200.34
Thomas R. Gross32807404.74