Unification of Ideals
Figure 1. The user is walking along the corridor. At each door opening there
is a mounted beacon combo, which uses open bluetooth connections to be visible to the user’s application (blue lightning). Each beacon has it’s own identity, and contains a small amount of information about its location, such as room number, office owner, etc. The bluetooth beacon would also be able to send its physical location (to the left or the right of the person’s path in the corridor), this information can be used by the user application to determine (depending on which direction the person is moving physically) to give the user a hint about which direction to go. Signal strength might provide a possibility to determine the distance. This situation changes when the user comes closer to the beacon, and…
Figure 2. … the Bluetooth beacon is replaced by an RFID (or QR-code on the wall). This short range locator (pink lightning) can then be used to provide the user with sources to additional information about the location, and provide a link to other accessible information sources (this might be more interesting in case this is used for more advanced location services, such as bus stop information etc.
If the location is outside of a building the Bluetooth connection could be complemented by a GPS-driven map application that keeps track of all the servers. The GPS is, however, not fine-grained enough to be able to let the user find the exact location of the information source.
This extension in functionality will not be part of the current thesis work.
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