Privacy-Preserving Large-Scale Location Monitoring Using Bluetooth Low Energy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo Chen ◽  
Haibo Hu ◽  
Jielin Yu
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Bluetooth Low Energy

scholarly journals Efficient Communication Scheme for Bluetooth Low Energy in Large Scale Applications

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 6371
Author(s):  
Maciej Nikodem ◽  
Mariusz Slabicki ◽  
Marek Bawiec
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Typical Application ◽  
Bluetooth Low Energy ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Communication Scheme ◽  
Improve Device ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The use of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications has become widespread and popular. This has resulted in the increased number of deployed BLE devices. To ensure energy efficiency, applications use connectionless communication where nodes broadcast information using advertisement messages. As the BLE devices compete for access to spectrum, collisions are inevitable and methods that improve device coexistence are required. This paper proposes a connectionless communication scheme for BLE that improves communication efficiency in IoT applications where a large number of BLE nodes operate in the same area and communicate simultaneously to a central server. The proposed scheme is based on an active scanning mode and is compared with a typical application where passive scanning mode is used. The evaluation is based on numerical simulations and real-life evaluation of a network containing 150 devices. The presented scheme significantly reduces the number of messages transmitted by each node and decreases packet loss ratio. It also improves the energy efficiency and preserves the battery of BLE nodes as they transmit fewer radio messages and effectively spent less time actively communicating. The proposed connectionless BLE communication scheme can be applied to a large variety of IoT applications improving their performance and coexistence with other devices operating in the 2.4 GHz band. Additionally, the implementation complexity and costs of the proposed communication scheme are negligible.

scholarly journals Experimental Evaluation of Advertisement-Based Bluetooth Low Energy Communication

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Nikodem ◽  
Marek Bawiec
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evaluation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Angle Of Arrival ◽  
Communication Performance ◽  
Bluetooth Low Energy ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

This paper addresses the efficiency of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication in a network composed of a large number of tags that transmit information to a single hub using advertisement mode. Theoretical results show that the use of advertisements enables hundreds and thousands of BLE devices to coexist in the same area and at the same time effectively transmit messages. Together with other properties (low power consumption, medium communication range, capability to detect a signal’s angle-of-arrival, etc.), this makes BLE a competing technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, as the number of communicating devices increases, the advertisement collision intensifies and the communication performance of BLE drops. This phenomena was so far analyzed theoretically, in simulations and in small-scale experiments, but large-scale experiments are not presented in the literature. This paper complements previous results and presents an experimental evaluation of a real IoT-use case, which is the deployment of over 200 tags communicating using advertisements. We evaluate the impact of the number of advertisements on the effective data reception rate and throughput. Despite the advertisement collision rate in our experiment varying between 0.22 and 0.33, we show that BLE, thanks to the multiple transmission of advertisements, can still ensure acceptable data reception rates and fulfill the requirements of a wide range of IoT applications.

RFID, NFC, Beacons, and the Infrastructures of Logistical Locative Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 474-486
Author(s):  
Jordan Frith
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Near Field Communication ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Bluetooth Low Energy ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Machine Readable

The phrase the Internet of things was originally coined in a 1999 presentation about attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to individual objects. These tags would make the objects machine-readable, uniquely identifiable, and, most importantly, wirelessly communicative with infrastructure. This chapter evaluates RFID as a piece of mobile communicative infrastructure, and it examines two emerging forms: near-field communication (NFC) and Bluetooth low-energy beacons. The chapter shows how NFC and Bluetooth low-energy beacons may soon move some types of RFID to smartphones, in this way evolving the use of RFID in payment and transportation and enabling new practices of post-purchasing behaviors.

scholarly journals Research on a Bluetooth Low Energy Warning Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 1631 ◽  
pp. 012162
Author(s):  
Yan Long ◽  
Yongli Chen ◽  
Deyong Xiao ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
Tianpeng Hou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Energy ◽  
Bluetooth Low Energy
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