Positioning with Bluetooth

Author

Hallberg, Josef ; Nilsson, Marcus ; Synnes, Kåre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Lulea Univ. of Technol., Sweden

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

23 Feb.-1 March 2003

Firstpage

954

Abstract

An evaluation of Bluetooth positioning in a general positioning platform is presented. The evaluation a Bluetooth based positioning system was implemented in order to complement the theoretical evaluation with empirical tests. Three different ways of positioning with Bluetooth have been developed. With a registered positioning service, a Bluetooth device has an active role in the positioning task, where a connected device to look up respective position in a database uses the unique address of the device. It is also possible to forward a position gained from the positioning platforms using the peer-to-peer characteristics in Bluetooth. The theoretical time requirements for a positioning system based on Bluetooth are discussed. Empirical tests show that these requirements hold.

Keywords

Bluetooth; mobile radio; Bluetooth device; Bluetooth positioning; location awareness; peer-to-peer characteristics; positioning platform; positioning system; positioning task; Bluetooth; Computer networks; Databases; Flowcharts; Keyboards; Mice; Mobile radio mobility management; Network servers; System testing; Teeth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications, 2003. ICT 2003. 10th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7661-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTEL.2003.1191568

Filename

1191568