Using BLE to Pre-empt Transitions between Smart Indoor Spaces

One of the abiding concerns of relatives of people with intellectual disability who are approaching adulthood, and those who care for senior citizens with cognitive impairment, relates to scheduling and organisation of daily activities such as commuting, medication plans and appointments. With appropriate software, information can be collected and harvested to support ID service users or aging people who have lost part of their cognitive skill. One key enabler in this system is the smartphone that has become part of modern life. Although the GPS capabilities of smartphones work well for outside locations, indoor positioning is still problematic and indoor location is a vital awareness component in ambient assistance. This study considers the use of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Received Signal Strength Indicators (RSSI) from either a smart phone or beacon to assist with user embarkation and transition between spaces. The full scope of the study considers the impact of phone orientation, whether a phone is in the hand of the user, how performance can be impacted by presence of typical office furniture and the impact of different phone models. In this preliminary version we focus on differences between whether the phone is in the hand of the user or on a table top and how RSSI information can be used to develop services that predict and assist with behaviour of users as they move between locations.

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H. Rifai

A. Velasco

P. Kelly

J. McGrory

D. Berry

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

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[0001]Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.182

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] Z. DengX. FuH. Wang 2018 An IMU-aided body-shadowing error compensation method for indoor bluetooth positioning. Sensors (Switzerland) 18 1 2018 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/s18010304

[2] R. FaragherR. Harle 2014 An Analysis of the Accuracy of Bluetooth Low Energy for Indoor Positioning Applications. Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2014) 2014 201 210

[3] R. FaragherR. Harle 2014 An Analysis of the Accuracy of Bluetooth Low Energy for Indoor Positioning Applications. Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2014) 2014 201 210

[4] C. GomezJ. OllerJ. Paradells 2012 Overview and Evaluation of Bluetooth Low Energy: An Emerging Low-Power Wireless Technology. Sensors 12 12 2012 11734 11753 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/s120911734

[5] S. HeS.H.G Chan 2016 Wi-Fi fingerprint-based indoor positioning: Recent advances and comparisons. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

[6] K. HeurtefeuxF. Valois 2012 Is RSSI a good choice for localization in wireless sensor network? Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2012 732 739

[7] A. KozmaJ. MansellJ. Beadle-Brown 2009 Outcomes in Different Residential Settings for People With Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review. AJIDD-AMERICAN JOURNAL ON INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 114 3 2009 193 222 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-114.3.193

[8] D.G. Myers 2007 Psychology (8th Ed.)

[9] C. Sengul 2017 Privacy, consent and authorization in IoT. Proceedings of the 2017 20th Conference on Innovations in Clouds, Internet and Networks, ICIN 2017 2017 319 321

[10] J.S. TurnerC., M.F. RamliL.M. KamarudinA. ZakariaA.Y. ShakaffM., D.L. NdziC.M. NorN. HassanS.M. Mamduh 2013 The study of human movement effect on signal strength for indoor WSN deployment. 2013 IEEE Conference on Wireless Sensor, ICWISE 2013 2013 30 35

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