Reliable Mobile-Proximity Interaction Mechanism Based on BLE Beacon-Initiated Notification

Abstract

This research explores reliability and timing issues of push notification from Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons in outdoor districts for smartphone-based interactive applications. First, beacon signals fully cover a targeted area. The second issue is that beacon infrastructure is designed for reliable performance against environmental properties. Finally, the experience quality of notification to smartphone or mobile devices takes high level even though users have mobility such as a driver in a car, a user riding a bicycle, a walking user, etc. For finding out base lines to achieve these features in interactive system design and practical deployment of smart applications based on smartphone-beacon interaction, we evaluate real performances of beacon running at outdoor places. We compare the novel notification model, named n-1 model, which merely copes with application variables with delivering content redundancy, to the typical 1-1 alignment mean of one notification with single content. The proposed model shows average 70 % improvement against those impediments.