iBeacon: Newly Emerged Technology for Positioning and Tracking in Indoor Place

Abstract: Indoor tracking is a variant of wireless tracking. It is an excellent way to monitor and track the location of people or valuable objects within a specific area, such as a building, hospital etc. where no other positioning technology works like GPS. Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE) is the newly emerged technology in the context of indoor tracking. Indoor tracking can be achieved when scattering BLE device such as iBeacons, which is attached to particular asset in various location of particular area. The Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is the parameter used as basis for the positioning and tracking approaches.With an iBeacon tag attached on asset, it is possible to track asset by various RSSI algorithms and techniques. The Web-Application or Android Application can be introduced to analyze the result of asset tracking.

Keywords: iBeacon, BLE, Indoor, RSSI, Asset.