Low Cost Indoor Localization Within and Across Disjoint Ubiquitous Environments using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

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dc.contributor.advisorMaurer, Frank
dc.contributor.authorAzazi, Alaa
dc.contributor.committeememberTang, Anthony
dc.contributor.committeememberJacob, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-31T20:10:10Z
dc.date.available2016-08-31T20:10:10Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016en
dc.description.abstractThe objective of this thesis was to design and explore the implementation of an indoor positioning and tracking technique that was low in cost, relying on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) sensors, and to integrate it into the Society of Devices Toolkit (SoD-Toolkit) developed at the Agile Surface Engineering lab at the University of Calgary. The resulting system maintains a database of all tracked and untracked users, and uses the signal strengths of pre-positioned BLE beacons to estimate the user's location in an indoor environment. Through an evaluation of the proposed technique, we observed an accuracy of approximately 0.86 meters when a user's average distance to each Bluetooth beacon was less than 1.5 meters. The technique was, also, successful in achieving an 80% tracking accuracy across disjoint tracked spaces when the user density in the space is kept below 0.17 users per square meter, suggesting it could prove to be a practical alternative and/or complement to existing indoor positioning systems.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAzazi, A. (2016). Low Cost Indoor Localization Within and Across Disjoint Ubiquitous Environments using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26792en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/26792
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/3245
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectComputer Science
dc.subject.classificationUbiquitousen_US
dc.subject.classificationSensorsen_US
dc.subject.classificationToolkiten_US
dc.subject.classificationMulti-Surfaceen_US
dc.subject.classificationBluetoothen_US
dc.titleLow Cost Indoor Localization Within and Across Disjoint Ubiquitous Environments using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Science
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
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