Use of beacons in outdoors: A study on a university campus in southt of Brazil
Abstract
The emergence of beacons and Bluetooth Low Energy is already modifying and expanding the Internet of Things market. This project describes the development of a solution to gather contextual information about buildings and colleges on a university campus using beacons. The "Discover UPF" application was developed as a way to provide contextual information about the locations of a University's Campus. The implementation achieved its objectives, efficiently providing information to users while they are on the move on campus. The results indicate that the use of beacons in outdoor locations is possible and can be used in other applications. Some of the potentials and limitations of the technology have been clarified, as well as the expansion of their cases of possible future developments using beacon technology.
Keywords:
Mobile Computing, smart spaces, Internet of Thing
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Barapatre, A. S., Shelake, V. A., Pawar, G. Y. and D.R., A. (2017). Smart College System using IoT BLE Beacons. Ijarcce, v. 6, n. 4, p. 438–442.
Bhattacharya, D., Canul, M. and Knight, S. (2017). Case Study : Impact of the Physical Web and BLE Beacons. In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Castillo-Cara, M., Lovón-Melgarejo, J., Bravo-Rocca, G., Orozco-Barbosa, L. and García-Varea, I. (jun 2017). An Empirical Study of the Transmission Power Setting for BluetoothBased Indoor Localization Mechanisms. Sensors, v. 17, n. 6, p. 1318.
De Sousa, C. A. (feb 2003). Turning brownfields into green space in the City of Toronto. Landscape and Urban Planning, v. 62, n. 4, p. 181–198.
Eckstein, C. G. and Rebonatto, M. T. (2018). Descubra UPF: uma solução para facilitar o acesso a informações contextuais usando beacons. Universidade de Passo Fundo.
Ferreira Paz, L., Maran, V., Machado, A. and Augustin, I. (2017). MECA: Mobile System Support for Brazilian Community Health Agents Program Based on Context-Awareness. IEEE Latin America Transactions, v. 15, n. 8, p. 1547–1555.
Google (2017). Proximity Beacon API. . https://developers.google.com/beacons/proximity/guides.
Google (2018a). Nearby. . https://developers.google.com/nearby/.
Google (2018b). Firebase. . https://firebase.google.com/.
Google (2018c). YouTube Android Player API. . https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/.
Google (2018d). YouTube Data API. . https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/.
Kosir, D. (2016). Location-Based Technology for Mobile Apps: Beacons vs. GPS vs. WiFi. . https://clearbridgemobile.com/location-based-technology-for-mobile-apps-beacons-vs-gpsvs-wifi/.
Kriz, P., Maly, F. and Kozel, T. (2016). Improving Indoor Localization Using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons. Mobile Information Systems, v. 2016.
Kuor-Hsin Chang (2014). Bluetooth: a viable solution for IoT? [Industry Perspectives]. IEEE Wireless Communications, v. 21, n. 6, p. 6–7.
Miorandi, D., Sicari, S., De Pellegrini, F. and Chlamtac, I. (2012). Internet of things: Vision, applications and research challenges. Ad Hoc Networks, v. 10, n. 7, p. 1497–1516.
Paek, J., Ko, J. and Shin, H. (2016). A Measurement Study of BLE iBeacon and Geometric Adjustment Scheme for Indoor Location-Based Mobile Applications. Mobile Information Systems, v. 2016.
Park, J. and Kim, J. (jan 2019). Economic impacts of a linear urban park on local businesses: The case of Gyeongui Line Forest Park in Seoul. Landscape and Urban Planning, v. 181, p. 139–147.
Periyasamy, M. and Dhanasekaran, R. (apr 2015). Evaluation of performance of UHF passive RFID system in metal and liquid environment. In 2015 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP). . IEEE. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7322921/.
Posdorfer, W. and Maalej, W. (2016). Towards Context-aware Surveys Using Bluetooth Beacons. Procedia Computer Science, v. 83, n. Ant, p. 42–49.
The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation (2017). The icon of modern art puts Estimote beacons on display. . http://blog.estimote.com/post/157200820650/the-icon-of-modern-artputs-estimote-beacons-on.
Triantafyllou, S., Koutsokera, L., Stavrou, V. and Griva, A. (2017). Enhance shopping experience and support decision making leveraging BLE beacons in a grocery retail store. In Proceedings of 14th Management Science and Technology Student Conference.
Zaharakis, I. and Komninos, A. (apr 2012). Ubiquitous computing multidisciplinary endeavour. IEEE Latin America Transactions, v. 10, n. 3, p. 1850–1852.
Published
2020-06-30
How to Cite
REBONATTO, Marcelo Trindade; ECKSTEIN, Cássio; REBONATTO, Cintia Sonale.
Use of beacons in outdoors: A study on a university campus in southt of Brazil. In: PROCEEDINGS OF BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON UBIQUITOUS AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING (SBCUP), 12. , 2020, Cuiabá.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2020
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p. 131-140.
ISSN 2595-6183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcup.2020.11219.
