A customizable Beacon architecture for the Internet of Things
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as the set of technologies connecting objects from the physical world, empowering them with the ability to react to events produced by human and other systems. In that direction, the goal of this paper is to present an architecture to build Customizable Beacons, allowing user devices and Smart Objects to directly access the data published by the Beacons, without requiring Internet connection. The main contributions of this paper are the creation of an customizable Beacon using Arduino and BLE; an Android API to interact with Beacons and a server to manage the information published by each Beacon.
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Lampkin, V., Leong, W. T., Olivera, L., Rawat, S., Subrahmanyam, N., Xiang, R., Kallas, G., Krishna, N., Fassmann, S., Keen, M., et al. (2012). Building smarter planet solutions with mqtt and ibm websphere mq telemetry. IBM Redbooks.
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Zafari, F. and Papapanagiotou, I. (2015). Enhancing ibeacon based micro-location with particle filtering. In Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2015 IEEE, pages 1–7. IEEE.
Published
2017-07-02
How to Cite
DE MELO, Emmanuel C. A.; MAIA, Marcio E. F.; REGO, Paulo A. L.; S. FILHO, Francisco H. C.; ANDRADE, Rossana M. C..
A customizable Beacon architecture for the Internet of Things. In: PROCEEDINGS OF BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON UBIQUITOUS AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING (SBCUP), 9. , 2017, São Paulo.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2017
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p. 1008-1017.
ISSN 2595-6183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcup.2017.3307.
