An Interactive Real-Time Locating System Based on Bluetooth Beacon
The Bluetooth-enabled Bracelet and peripherals have brought tremendous convenience to our daily life. Over the last few years, Bluetooth beacons have also been gaining popularity in implementing a variety of innovative location-based services such as self-guided systems in exhibition centers. Although, the broadcast-based beacon technology can only offer unidirectional communication. In case bracelet users would like to respond to the beacon messages, they have to rely on their mobile Internet connections to send the information back to the backend system.
One of the best advantages is its simplicity for all you need to start using Bluetooth Beacon technology for positioning is a BLE transmitter and either a reader or an acquire point that receives and communicates location to a gateway. Lansitec provides wearable technology that is becoming advanced and common. Bluetooth bracelets and smartwatches are the most prominent examples of wearable technology. Wear the bracelet around the wrist and track valuable information.
Manufacturers are now combining RFID technology with Bluetooth Bracelet. For this goal, you require to place a chip in the smart band. In consequence, fitness tracker bracelets are coming into the market. The Bluetooth bracelet supports high-frequency scanning. Moreover to this, every device has a unique identity having RFID in the background system. The tool of RFI is almost similar to the magnetic strip or bar code. So the solution of RFID provides a unique identifying number for each object.
The Bluetooth Bracelet tracks valuable information. These smart gadgets can track the user’s health-related data such as heartbeat, walking steps, sleeping, etc. All these devices make users’ life very tranquil. A Bluetooth Beacon is a small device that constantly sends out radio signals to nearby smartphones and tablets, containing a small amount of data. The signal strength and time between each signal can be configured to give the desired coverage. Smartphone apps can listen for the signals being broadcast and, when they hear a relevant signal, can trigger an action on the phone. Note that beacons only operate/talk in one direction.
For the majority of current beacons, the data that they transmit is hardcoded and doesn’t change frequently and they rely on the device which is listening to do something intelligent with the information in the future, this is likely to start changing. The signals also allow apps to recognize whether you are getting closer or further away, hence offering you a welcome/goodbye message as you shop or even understanding which parts of the shop you interacted with. Make sure that this processing would have to be done by the app as a beacon only transmits data and cannot receive a signal from your phone this information could however be transmitted back to the shop via a data/Wi-Fi connection.
It works using BLE which is a version of the more common Bluetooth protocol, designed to use very little power and send less data — typically 1–20% of standard Bluetooth power and at 15–50% of the speed. Lansitec is often powered by batteries and as such the performance/battery life needs careful balancing to suit the application as the battery life can be anywhere. Bluetooth Beacon is similar to the website tracking and analytics tools that companies use to monitor the journey that consumers take to reach a purchasing decision on eCommerce sites. For these reasons, they have such an appeal for marketers.
