We introduce a high precision localization and tracking method that makes use of cheap Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) beacons only. We track the position of a moving sensor by integrating highly unreliable and noisy BLE observations streaming from multip...
Indoor localization has become a mature research area, but further scientific developments are limited due to the lack of open datasets and corresponding frameworks suitable to compare and evaluate specialized localization solutions. Although several...
Timing points used in running races and other competition events are generally based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. Athletes’ times are calculated via passive RFID tags and reader kits. Specifically, the reader infrastructure ne...
We developed a Bluetooth Low Energy-based indoor asset-tracking system oriented toward elderly care and cultural heritage stewardship. The system stabilizes the noisy received signal strength indicator using a Kalman filter, adapts a logarithmic path...
The present study aims to identify the accuracy of the NBN23® system, an indoor tracking system based on radio-frequency and standard Bluetooth Low Energy channels. Twelve capture tags were attached to a custom cart with fixed distances of 0.5, 1...
The purpose of this research was to develop a simple, cost-effective, but enough efficient solution for locating, tracking and distribution analysis of people and/or vehicle flowing, based on non-intrusive Bluetooth sensing and selective filtering al...
The need for drone traffic control management has emerged as the demand for drones increased. Particularly, in order to control unauthorized drones, the systems to detect and track drones have to be developed. In this paper, we propose the drone posi...
Variations in Global Positioning Systems (GPSs) have been used for tracking users’ locations. However, when location tracking is needed for an indoor space, such as a house or building, then an alternative means of precise position tracking may...
Mobility limitations due to congenital disabilities, accidents, or illnesses pose significant challenges to the daily lives of individuals with disabilities. This study presents a novel design for a multifunctional intelligent vehicle, integrating he...
To avoid problems related to a school bus service such as kidnapping, children being left in a bus for hours leading to fatality, etc., it is important to have a reliable transportation service to ensure students’ safety along journeys. This research...
Indoor location services often use Bluetooth low energy (BLE) devices for their low energy consumption and easy implementation. Applications like device monitoring, ranging, and asset tracking utilize the received signal strength (RSS) of the BLE sig...
High-precision indoor localization and tracking are essential requirements for the safe navigation and task execution of autonomous mobile robots. Despite the growing importance of mobile robots in various areas, achieving precise indoor localization...
In this paper, we propose a wearable device for residential elbow joint rehabilitation with voice prompts and a tracking feedback app (WDRTFAPP). We have developed the app as well as the Arduino embedded system, which we have integrated together. In...
(1) Background: public transport demand dynamics represents important information for fleet managers and is also a key factor in making public transport attractive to reduce the environmental footprint of urban traffic. This research presents some ex...
In this paper, an overlapping-resistant Internet of Things (IoT) solution for a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based indoor tracking system (BLE-ITS) is presented. The BLE-ITS is a promising, inexpensive alternative to the well-known GPS. It can be used...
The tracking of assets or cargo is one of the main objectives of global logistics and transportation systems, ensuring operational efficiency, security, and timeliness. Currently, battery-operated GPS (Global Positioning System)-based tracking device...
Throughout this work, the use of a new technology is proposed to give an innovative solution to the problem of indoor and outdoor positioning and a guidance system in areas where there is no coverage of Internet or global positioning systems. This no...
The emergence of AIGC has significantly improved design efficiency, enriched creativity, and promoted innovation in the design industry. However, whether the content generated from its own database meets the preferences of target users still needs to...
The non-contact patient monitoring paradigm moves patient care into their homes and enables long-term patient studies. The challenge, however, is to make the system non-intrusive, privacy-preserving, and low-cost. To this end, we describe an open-sou...
Some of the recent developments in data science for worldwide disease control have involved research of large-scale feasibility and usefulness of digital contact tracing, user location tracking, and proximity detection on users’ mobile devices...
This work introduces a low-cost, wearable assistive mouse designed to support digital interaction for individuals with motor impairments. The system combines inertial sensing for head-movement tracking and a pressure-based interface for simulating mo...
Accurate spatiotemporal information on crowds is a necessity for a better management in general and for the mitigation of potential security risks. The large numbers of individuals involved and their mobility, however, make generation of this informa...
Managing modern museum content and visitor data analytics to achieve higher levels of visitor experience and overall museum performance is a complex and multidimensional issue involving several scientific aspects, such as exhibits’ metadata man...
Assuming a reliable and responsive spatial contextualization service is a must-have in IEEE 802.11 and 802.15.4 wireless networks, a suitable approach consists of the implementation of localization capabilities, as an additional application layer to...
A Bluetooth beacon-based underground navigation system (BBUNS) was developed to identify the optimal haul road in an underground mine, track the locations of dump trucks, and display this information on mobile devices. A three-dimensional (3-D) geogr...
The ubiquity of Bluetooth-enabled smartphones and peripherals has brought tremendous convenience to our daily life. In recent years, Bluetooth beacons have also been gaining popularity in implementing a variety of innovative location-based services s...
For the localization of multiple users, Bluetooth data from the smartphone is able to complement Wi-Fi-based methods with additional information, by providing an approximation of the relative distances between users. In practice, both positions provi...
Infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, may have a significant impact on human daily life and social activities. One effective method to prevent and control the spread of such diseases is to accurately locate the sources of infection and limit the pos...
Bluetooth low energy (LE) devices have been widely used in the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless personal area networks (WPAN). However, attackers may compromise user privacy by tracking the addresses of the LE device. The resolvable private addr...
Occupancy monitoring (OM) and the localization of individuals within indoor environments using wearable devices offer a very promising data communication solution in applications such as home automation, smart office management, outbreak monitoring,...
Despite extensive research, indoor localization techniques remain an open problem, with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) continuing to be a dominant technology even in the presence of ultrawideband and Bluetooth 5.1. This study proposes a novel approach fo...
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has emerged as one of the most promising technologies to enable the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm. In BLE-based IoT applications, e.g., wearables-oriented service applications, the Bluetooth MAC addresses of devices wil...
Every year, approximately 3% of cats and dogs are lost. In addition to passive methods for identifying pets, radiofrequency tracking devices (TDs) are available. These TDs can track a pet’s geographic position, which is transmitted by radio frequenci...
A wide variety of business areas organize their work based on the location of their employees because only by taking these locations into account, they can schedule activities properly. However, in a large number of cases, the requirement of immediac...
This study applies smartphone, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi wireless network to control a wheeled mobile robot (WMR) remotely. The first part of this study demonstrates that the WMR can be controlled manually by a smartphone. The smartphone can remotely cont...
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Taiwan has been successful in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, without a vaccine the threat of a second outbreak remains. Young adults who show few to no symptoms when infected have been identified in many c...
Tracking people’s behaviors is a main category of cyber physical social sensing (CPSS)-related people-centric applications. Most tracking methods utilize camera networks or sensors built into mobile devices such as global positioning system (GPS) and...
Providing a safe and secure living environment for residents that is supported by a dedicated healthcare team is one of the core values of nursing homes. Nursing homes must protect residents from the risk of going missing, track quarantined residents...
This article presents an innovative method for planning and tracking the trajectory in the image plane for the visual control of a quadrotor. The community of researchers working on 2D control widely recognizes this challenge as complex, because a tr...
Accidents involving marine crew members and passengers are still an issue that must be studied and obviated. Preventing such accidents at sea can improve the quality of life on board by ensuring a safe ship environment. This paper proposes a hybrid i...
An application of Bluetooth beacons is here proposed to perform real-time tracking of the locations and movements of airport staff through different monitored airport infrastructure elements, such as rooms, terminals or boarding gates. With respect t...
With the rapid advancement of technology, precision agriculture, as a modern agricultural production model, has seen significant progress in recent years. Its widespread adoption is gradually transforming traditional farming methods, providing strong...
Accidents in highway tunnels involving trucks carrying flammable cargoes can be dangerous, needing immediate confrontation to detect and safely evacuate the trapped people to lead them to the safety exits. Unfortunately, existing sensing technologies...
The risk of theft of goods is certainly an important source of negative influence in human psychology. This article focuses on the development of a scheme that, despite its low cost, acts as a smart antitheft system that achieves small property detec...
Navigating in unknown big indoor environments with static 2D maps is a challenge, especially when time is a critical factor. In order to provide a mobile assistant, capable of supporting people while navigating in indoor locations, an accurate and re...
This article presents research results on a smart building prediction, navigation and asset management system. The main goal of this work was to combine all comfort subsystems, such as lighting, heating or air conditioning control, into one coherent...
Cycling is one of the most popular sports and recreational activities. Millions of new people start to integrate bicycling into their daily routines every year. Fitness and activity trackers are the most powerful motivation tools for cycling novices...
Underground mining involves numerous risks, such as collapses, gas leaks, and explosions, posing significant threats to worker safety. In this work, we develop an indoor localization system that uses Bluetooth for coarse positioning and ultrasonic ar...
Smart shoes have ushered in a new era of personalised health monitoring and assistive technologies. Smart shoes leverage technologies such as Bluetooth for data collection and wireless transmission, and incorporate features such as GPS tracking, obst...
Today’s residential electricity management depends heavily on the Internet of Things (IoT). It is still challenging to create practical, affordable smart condition monitoring, protection, and control systems for residential distribution networks. The...
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