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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2019.10.005

A User Movement Direction Detecting Method through Data Analysis of BLE Beacons and Its Implementation

Choe, Jong-gak (Department of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Kwon, YongJin (School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)

Publication Information

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.13, no.10, 2019 , pp. 4908-4922 More about this Journal

Abstract

The popularization of smartphones in recent years has created a rich ground for online-to-offline (O2O) services based on location information. In the process of finding user locations in O2O services, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacons are widely used because the beacons are economical in many ways. The current BLE method does not specify the direction of user movement, but adding that information could enrich the user experience for various O2O services. This paper proposes a method that identifies the user movement direction through data analysis on data sets generated by a pair of BLE beacons. Also we demonstrate its implementation with examples of services that need the direction information of users in order to show the feasibility of the method proposed.

Keywords

Movement direction detection; Data analysis; O2O service; BLE beacon; RSSI;

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