An Integrated Indoor Positioning System with Web Internet of Things

Abstract

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has low power consumption, low cost, faster connection speed, and is extremely easy to deploy. The Beacon function in BLE is the basis for providing indoor positioning. Also, most of today's smart devices have Bluetooth, and all support Bluetooth 4.0 or higher, so BLE is very suitable for indoor positioning of smart devices. In addition to being able to be used for indoor positioning, the Beacon actively broadcasts its Beacon signaling regularly. Such a function can be used for advertising promotion in a designated area. Further, if a Beacon message contains the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) represents an Internet of Things (IoT) device, such a device can be called Web IoT device. It can be seen from the above that BLE's indoor positioning system can not only achieve positioning but also expand the characteristics to provide more diverse application services so that the positioning system has better value. Therefore, this paper takes the shopping mall as an example to implement the application service of integrating the Web IoT and BLE indoor positioning system to provide consumers with more application services, including indoor positioning, advertising push, and Coupon collection and use, Web IoT device display and trial and so on.