“Real Time Indoor Location Part II” Real-time Indoor Bluetooth Tracking Application

Abstract

Due to the huge size of buildings and floor numbers nowadays, the problem of locating a person inside a building has increased drastically. Parents often lose their children within a large mall and have hard time trying to find them. Business owners cannot monitor their employees anymore. The solution of real-time indoor positioning system needs to be delivered to solve these problems. With the cooperation of Systel Telecommunication (Motorola Egypt) an accurate, fast and cheap solution that is the first of its kind in Egypt will be created using Bluetooth beacons to track the indoor Bluetooth devices. Just by using the MAC address of the Bluetooth module that is in any Bluetooth enabled device, the system will be able to locate the device in real time on an interactive map that is easy to use and easy to operate by any user. The system is accurate as it uses Bluetooth and RSSI values to locate the devices. The solution has been developed by three teams, team A, B and C. Team A (hardware): responsible for building Bluetooth beacon that will interface between the Bluetooth devices and the desktop application. Team B (software): responsible for building a full desktop application that will interface between the Bluetooth beacons and the Bluetooth devices. The application includes an interactive map for the user that shows the position of the devices in real time in addition to new features such as: geo-fencing, movement history and notification system. Team C (software): responsible for building a tool that generates the coverage area in the building layout with the minimum number of Bluetooth beacons and maximum coverage to reduce the cost and the time of deployment.