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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2015.40.1.108

A Research on Performance Improvement of iBeacon Using Transmission and Reception of Different Beacon Signals  

Kim, Cheol-Hoon (Kyunghee University Department of Computer Engineering)
Hong, Seung-Hyun (Kyunghee University Department of Computer Engineering)
Lee, Sung-Won (Kyunghee University Department of Computer Engineering)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.40, no.1, 2015 , pp. 108-114 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a different kind of Beacon signals transmission and receipt scheme to express more information in existing iBeacon. Because the user can only use Major and Minor of iBeacon, information available for the user is limited to 4byte. The proposed scheme makes it possible to use more information by transmitting consecutively a different kind of Beacon signals that major and minor are different. When it comes to using more information of iBeacon, it is possible to recognize people and objects using iBeacon and utilization range of iBeacon is widened further. Also, we verify operation of the proposed scheme through application implementation.
Keywords
Beacon; iBeacon; Bluetooth; Bluetooth Low Energy;
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