An Indoor Navigation System using Beacons

Abstract: In today's era of technology, everything is integrated on smart phone. Every common man has a smartphone and carries it everywhere. When people travel to any new place, in order to locate and find path to their destination, they use GPS in their smart phones. But GPS is not precise for small scale and does not work inside the buildings, therefore the need of indoor positioning arises. Our motivation behind the project is to come up with indoor navigation application that can help any new visitor to locate and find path to their destination easily inside the campus. Indoor navigation application uses BLE beacon. BLE beacon allows mobile application to determine their location on a micro-local scale. Beacon and smartphone use Bluetooth Low Energy technology for communication. Since it uses Bluetooth Low Energy for communication it consume very less battery power.

Keywords: iBeacon, BLE, Smartphone, Android Application.