What is Bluetooth Beacon Tracker
Bluetooth Beacon Tracker is a robust real-time indoor tracking system designed for tracking BLE beacons inside multi-floor buildings thanks to a set of BLE nodes.
- The BLE beacons are tiny and cheap transmitters with no reception capabilities and with a very long battery life (years) that can be used for assets and people tracking. They transmit a universally unique identifier (UUID) to a range that can reach up to a few tens of meters (up to 50 meters).
- The BLE nodes are tiny and cheap receivers programmed to detect Bluetooth signals transmitted by nearby BLE beacons and to report this information (the RSS – received signal strength) to the Indoor Tracking server thanks to a wireless or wired connection. The Indoor Tracking server estimates the location of each BLE beacons by trilaterating the signals received by the BLE nodes.
Setup steps
Here is an overview of the steps that must be performed to setup Bluetooth Beacon Tracker:
- Chose and configure the BLE beacons that you would like to use in your project
- Chose the model of BLE nodes that suits the your specific needs.
- Plan the deployment by computing the right amount and the right displacement of BLE nodes.
- Configure your BLE nodes to allow them to send the reports to the Indoor Tracking server.
- Choose a reference system that will help you to accurately position the BLE nodes on the Indoor Tracking Dashboard.
- Install the BLE nodes – physically in your environment and virtually inside the Indoor Tracking Dashboard.
Once everything has been setup properly you can retrieve the WGS 84 locations or X-Y metric coordinates of your BLE beacons and integrate the location data inside any Web or mobile application with an outstanding API. No platform specific library or SDK is required!