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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 36 No. 3, pp. 643-658


Design and Implementation of Beacon-Based Positioning


SHIN-YAN CHIOU1,2 AND ZHEN-YUAN LIAO1
1Department of Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering
Chang Gung University
Taoyuan, 333 Taiwan

2Department of Nuclear Medicine
Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Taoyuan, 333 Taiwan
E-mail: ansel@mail.cgu.edu.tw


The Global Positioning System enables mobile device users to achieve rapid positioning. However, its indoor positioning performance is still unsatisfactory. In recent years, numerous scholars have investigated Wi-Fi indoor positioning technologies. However, the distance error of such techniques can be higher than 5m. Some scholars have proposed new approaches of beacon-based indoor positioning to provide easier installation and decrease the distance error to 2.5m. For both better positioning performance and being economical, this paper proposes an approach of beacon-based positioning method, using cost-effective Estimate Proximity Beacons and Android smart phones for implementation. The result reveals that the mean distance errors of our method are 0.398m in stasis and 1.97m in motion. 
 


Keywords: positioning, indoor positioning, beacon, bluetooth low energy, mobile

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