Frictionless Indoor Location using BLE
Velásquez Saavedra, Nicolás Eduardo · 2018
Indoor location of people is a wide studied topic as it is a powerful tool that can be used to many tasks like helping to navigate better inside a large space like an airport, understanding better the trajectories of people on a certain place, or tailoring marketing strategies depending on the current location of an individual. Currently, indoor location using Bluetooth low energy is very used because of the low power consume and the low prices of the beacons. But an issue of usability is still present and is that every space need a new app, and that discourage the users to use the system. This paper describes the work in progress of a distributed indoor location system using BLE that migrates the processing and calibration requirements from the smartphone to external hardware and the cloud so there is only one free application that can handle all the location based services of every place.