{"id":813,"date":"2023-02-24T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2023-02-24T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:05:22","slug":"using-beacons-for-intelligent-in-room-presence-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-for-intelligent-in-room-presence-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Beacons for Intelligent In-Room Presence Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most Beacon usecases involve putting beacons on things or in places and triggering notifications on users&#8217; phones.&nbsp;There&#8217;s a paper by Yang Yang, Zhouchi Li and Kaveh Pahlavan of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA that instead&nbsp;proposes <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semanticscholar.org\/paper\/Using-Ibeacon-for-Intelligent-In-room-Presence-Yang-Li\/08ef420a74977253d295263cce4d158b1e74cf23\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Using iBeacon for Intelligent In-Room Presence Detection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their system records users in a room for applications such as graduate seminar check-in, security and in and out counting. It recognises in room presence by analysing path loss and door motion readings to decide whether a person is inside the room. Their custom app receives the beacon data&nbsp;and sends it&nbsp;to a&nbsp;server for analysis. They experimented using two iBeacons, one attached to the outside of the door with&nbsp;another mirroring at the inside and also as single iBeacon implementation&nbsp;that&nbsp;still performed well.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/presencedetection.png\" alt=\"presencedetection\" class=\"wp-image-814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/presencedetection.png 517w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/presencedetection-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 85vw, 517px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The paper&nbsp;also a useful chart showing the variation of RSSI with how a phone is held:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rssivspostion.png\" alt=\"rssivspostion\" class=\"wp-image-815\"\/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Beacon usecases involve putting beacons on things or in places and triggering notifications on users&#8217; phones.&nbsp;There&#8217;s a paper by Yang Yang, Zhouchi Li and Kaveh Pahlavan of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA that instead&nbsp;proposes Using iBeacon for Intelligent In-Room Presence Detection. Their system records users in a room for applications such as graduate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-for-intelligent-in-room-presence-detection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Beacons for Intelligent In-Room Presence Detection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,61,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}