{"id":6593,"date":"2021-08-18T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2023-05-04T20:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:20:50","slug":"an-ai-machine-learning-beacon-based-indoor-location-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/an-ai-machine-learning-beacon-based-indoor-location-system\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI Machine Learning Beacon-Based Indoor Location System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a recent paper by researchers at DeustoTech Institute of Technology, Bilbao, Spain and Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/21\/14\/4839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Behavior Modeling for a Beacon-Based Indoor Location System<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research compares two different approaches to track a person indoors using Bluetooth LE technology with a smartphone and a smartwatch used as monitoring devices. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/beaconlocationsystem-1024x328.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6594\" width=\"512\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/beaconlocationsystem-1024x328.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/beaconlocationsystem-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/beaconlocationsystem-768x246.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/beaconlocationsystem-1200x384.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/beaconlocationsystem.png 1205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The beacons were iB005N supplied by us and it&#8217;s the first time we have been referenced in a research paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research is novel in that it uses AI machine learning to attempt location prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/machinelearninglocationsystem-767x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6595\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/machinelearninglocationsystem-767x1024.png 767w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/machinelearninglocationsystem-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/machinelearninglocationsystem-768x1025.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/machinelearninglocationsystem.png 1107w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 85vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The researchers were able to predict the user&#8217;s next location with 67% accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Location prediction has some interesting and useful applications. For example, you might stop a vulnerable person going outside a defined area or in an industrial setting stop a worker going into a dangerous area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a recent paper by researchers at DeustoTech Institute of Technology, Bilbao, Spain and Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy on Behavior Modeling for a Beacon-Based Indoor Location System. The research compares two different approaches to track a person indoors using Bluetooth LE technology with a smartphone and a smartwatch used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/an-ai-machine-learning-beacon-based-indoor-location-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An AI Machine Learning Beacon-Based Indoor Location System&#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":[172,31,173,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593"}],"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=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8623,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}