{"id":6428,"date":"2021-06-18T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2021-06-18T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:33:13","slug":"positioning-tracking-and-flow-using-bluetooth-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/positioning-tracking-and-flow-using-bluetooth-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Positioning, Tracking and Flow Using Bluetooth Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s new research into <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/20\/24\/7327\/htm\" target=\"_blank\">Developing a Solution for Mobility and Distribution Analysis Based on Bluetooth and Artificial Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper describes an efficient solution for locating, tracking, analysing distribution and flow of people and\/or vehicles. Filters and algorithms including artificial intelligence and angle of arrival (AoA) were employed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulation-1024x723.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6429\" width=\"512\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulation-1024x723.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulation-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulation-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulation-1536x1084.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulation-2048x1446.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulation-1200x847.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Locating using Triangulation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulationAoA-1024x861.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6430\" width=\"512\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulationAoA-1024x861.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulationAoA-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulationAoA-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulationAoA-1536x1291.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulationAoA-2048x1721.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/triangulationAoA-1200x1008.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Triangulation Using Angle of Arrival (AoA)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The resultant system provided for analysis of location, traffic flow and passenger movement along routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3drssi-1024x701.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6431\" width=\"512\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3drssi-1024x701.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3drssi-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3drssi-768x525.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3drssi-1536x1051.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3drssi-2048x1401.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3drssi-1200x821.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>3D RSSI Variation with distance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers found that accuracy was improved when multiple measuring stations were used. Improved positioning was achieved using geometry algorithms (Voronoi) and the k-mean cluster algorithms. Artificial intelligence allowed for deeper analysis of the data for more accurate positioning, trajectory estimation and density evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s new research into Developing a Solution for Mobility and Distribution Analysis Based on Bluetooth and Artificial Intelligence. The paper describes an efficient solution for locating, tracking, analysing distribution and flow of people and\/or vehicles. Filters and algorithms including artificial intelligence and angle of arrival (AoA) were employed. The resultant system provided for analysis of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/positioning-tracking-and-flow-using-bluetooth-signals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Positioning, Tracking and Flow Using Bluetooth Signals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,31,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}