Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE Beacons
The digital transformation advancement enables multiple areas to provide modern services to their users. Culture is one of the areas that can benefit from these advances, more specifically museums, by presenting many benefits and the most emergent technologies to the visitors. This paper presents an...
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| description | The digital transformation advancement enables multiple areas to provide modern services to their users. Culture is one of the areas that can benefit from these advances, more specifically museums, by presenting many benefits and the most emergent technologies to the visitors. This paper presents an indoor location system and content delivery solution, based on Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons, that enable visitors to walk freely inside the museum and receive augmented reality content based on the acquired position, which is done using the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). The solution presented in this paper was created for the Foz Côa Museum in Portugal and was tested in the real environment. A detailed study was carried out to analyze the RSSI under four different scenarios, and detection tests were carried out that allowed us to measure the accuracy of the room identification, which is needed for proper content delivery. Of the 89 positions tested in the four scenarios, 70% of the received signals were correctly received throughout the entire duration of the tests, 20% were received in an intermittent way, 4% were never detected and 6% of unwanted beacons were detected. The signal detection is fundamental for the correct room identification, which was performed with 96% accuracy. Thus, we verified that this technology is suitable for the proposed solution. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95b369f64f4b467b8ee0a57cdca9cd202023-11-19T08:49:25ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-08-012317740310.3390/s23177403Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE BeaconsDavid Verde0Luís Romero1Pedro Miguel Faria2Sara Paiva3ADiT-Lab from Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, n.° 34, 4900-367 Viana do Castelo, PortugalADiT-Lab from Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, n.° 34, 4900-367 Viana do Castelo, PortugalADiT-Lab from Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, n.° 34, 4900-367 Viana do Castelo, PortugalADiT-Lab from Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, n.° 34, 4900-367 Viana do Castelo, PortugalThe digital transformation advancement enables multiple areas to provide modern services to their users. Culture is one of the areas that can benefit from these advances, more specifically museums, by presenting many benefits and the most emergent technologies to the visitors. This paper presents an indoor location system and content delivery solution, based on Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons, that enable visitors to walk freely inside the museum and receive augmented reality content based on the acquired position, which is done using the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). The solution presented in this paper was created for the Foz Côa Museum in Portugal and was tested in the real environment. A detailed study was carried out to analyze the RSSI under four different scenarios, and detection tests were carried out that allowed us to measure the accuracy of the room identification, which is needed for proper content delivery. Of the 89 positions tested in the four scenarios, 70% of the received signals were correctly received throughout the entire duration of the tests, 20% were received in an intermittent way, 4% were never detected and 6% of unwanted beacons were detected. The signal detection is fundamental for the correct room identification, which was performed with 96% accuracy. Thus, we verified that this technology is suitable for the proposed solution.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/17/7403indoor-locationBLE beaconspath lossRSSI signalmuseums |
| spellingShingle | David Verde Luís Romero Pedro Miguel Faria Sara Paiva Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE Beacons Sensors indoor-location BLE beacons path loss RSSI signal museums |
| title | Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE Beacons |
| title_full | Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE Beacons |
| title_fullStr | Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE Beacons |
| title_full_unstemmed | Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE Beacons |
| title_short | Indoor Content Delivery Solution for a Museum Based on BLE Beacons |
| title_sort | indoor content delivery solution for a museum based on ble beacons |
| topic | indoor-location BLE beacons path loss RSSI signal museums |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/17/7403 |
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