IP&SF: Indoor Positioning and Service Framework by using Information about BLE-based Beacons in Indoor Spaces
Bongen Gu · 2016
User location is one of the important factors to provide services based on a users location. For user location determination especially in indoor spaces, various methods can be used including beacon, mobile network, NFC and QR code. Mobile network has a difficulty to apply them in indoor spaces. In addition, since a tag needs to be close to a reader device, NFC and QR code require relatively longer time for tag recognition, causing user inconvenience such as recognition error. In this paper, we suggest a user location recognition method using BLE-based beacon, and propose indoor positioning and service framework. The proposed framework is based on information about BLE-based beacons fetched from the remote database system.