Generating Indoor Navigation Routes Using Beacons

Abstract

The Internet of Things is promoting the generation of smart buildings. These buildings have as main requirement the navigation of interiors. However, GPS technology, which is used to carry out positioning, cannot be used within a building because satellite signals do not travel well through solid materials. In this paper, we present an indoor navigation proposal, which uses beacons technology and smartphones. Our software application obtains information from the context and generates the best route to reach the destination within an intelligent building. The Dijkstra algorithm was used to process all the information. Hence, our proposal aims to combine different technologies, and adapt developed algorithms to indoor navigation. The results obtained are encouraging and show that it is possible to obtain good results using this type of technology.