Abstract
The common problem that people face these days to find out the Indoor location of a particular Object or a Person exactly. GPS-based location tracking is one of the very important services nowadays. To use GPS tracking to find a path to our destination and also track the position of our goods using GPS Tracking. It is also possible to track the exact location in absence of GPS with the help of proposed implementation. In some cases like indoor location, the GPS tracker cannot locate exact position of a person or an object. GPS Tracker generally requires an open space with no roof on it. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) iBeacons that have to understand basically where this technology can be used or where it is useful. Basically, it is for an especially indoor location tracking of something movable or mobile without the use of a GPS Receiver. This proposed article is going to discuss the idea of making an Indoor location tracker using BLE and LoRa Technology along with IoT Dashboard through “The Things Network” (TTN) to know the position of the object or a person anywhere in the world
Highlights
To understand the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) iBeacon basically where this technology can be used or where is it useful
The warehouse example is taken, so, they will be transmitting their ID and this is what the main tracker and this tracker has a BLE chip as well, as LoRa chip. This tracker has both BLE and LoRa (Hybrid Technology). When this tracker is somewhere in the warehouse and my BLE tracker is somewhere near this Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon, it will pick up the signal of this BLE beacon and it will know that it is near this beacon, so the location of forklift with BLE Tracker can be tracked based on the signal strength received by BLE iBeacon and once this tracker knows the location that it is near Bluetooth it is near the beacon one it will transmit that information over through LoRa to a central Gateway as Shown the conceptual diagram 1
By examining, analyzing and comparing all the literature works, the new approch is proposed to calculate the exact location using BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacons along with LoRa (Long Range) Gateway (Hybrid Technology) to findout exact locations of an Object or a Person in indoor Environments and send the information over a long distance with the help of LoRa Transceiver modules and this entire information will be updated in the “Ubidots Cloud” platforms using LoRaWAN Central Gateway and The Things Network (TTN) to trace out the Indoor Location of an Objects, garments, Machine parts, goods or a person any where in the world
Summary
To understand the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) iBeacon basically where this technology can be used or where is it useful It is for a location tracking of something movable or stable without a GPS module. There is where the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) concept comes, what happens it is a Bluetooth beacon or something like this is a small device that is battery operated and it can, it is always transmitting a signal or a small packet of information which has its unique ID over Bluetooth Low Energy It is basically a Bluetooth signal, that this a particular beacon will transfer and it is called BLE, because, it requires very low energy and this particular beacon transmits after every 500 milliseconds. When this tracker is somewhere in the warehouse and my BLE tracker is somewhere near this Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon, it will pick up the signal of this BLE beacon and it will know that it is near this beacon, so the location of forklift with BLE Tracker can be tracked based on the signal strength received by BLE iBeacon and once this tracker knows the location that it is near Bluetooth it is near the beacon one it will transmit that information over through LoRa to a central Gateway as Shown the conceptual diagram 1
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