Indoor Navigation Using QR Code, Pedometer and IBeacon

Abstract

In day-to-day life, smartphones are used for navigation to reach the destination. The existing smartphone's application provides navigation which uses Global Positioning System (GPS) and internet. The navigation applications which are present in market gives accurate result for outdoor navigation, however there is challenge for getting accurate result for indoor navigation such as inside closed building, shopping mall, airport terminal, railway stations, etc. There are some application solution are present in the market which uses wifi, Assisted Global Positioning System (AGPS) and Bluetooth, since reliability of existing solution are still challenging ones. The proposed system is giving a solution in terms of application which uses Quick Response (QR) code, Pedometer and Ibeacon for providing indoor navigation. QR codes provides destination location information, QR codes are placed at the entrance of building and Ibeacon is placed at destination to confirm the destination location, pedometer is used to count the steps and calculates the distance (steps) covered and distance has to be covered. The proposed mobile application displays images wherever required during the navigation and also it assists the navigation by outputting voice commands. Proposed application can also be used by Blind and Deaf persons.