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A Research on Performance Improvement of iBeacon Using Transmission and Reception of Different Beacon Signals

이종의 Beacon 신호 송수신을 통한 iBeacon의 성능 개선에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Cheol-Hoon (Kyunghee University Department of Computer Engineering) ;
  • Hong, Seung-Hyun (Kyunghee University Department of Computer Engineering) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Won (Kyunghee University Department of Computer Engineering)
  • Received : 2014.09.29
  • Accepted : 2014.11.27
  • Published : 2015.01.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a different kind of Beacon signals transmission and receipt scheme to express more information in existing iBeacon. Because the user can only use Major and Minor of iBeacon, information available for the user is limited to 4byte. The proposed scheme makes it possible to use more information by transmitting consecutively a different kind of Beacon signals that major and minor are different. When it comes to using more information of iBeacon, it is possible to recognize people and objects using iBeacon and utilization range of iBeacon is widened further. Also, we verify operation of the proposed scheme through application implementation.

본 논문은 기존의 iBeacon에서 더 많은 양의 정보를 표현하기 위한 서로 다른 종류의 Beacon 신호 송수신 방안을 제안한다. iBeacon은 정보를 보낼 때 실질적으로 Major와 Minor 만을 이용할 수 있기 때문에 사용자가 사용할 수 있는 정보는 총 4byte로 한정적이다. 제안하는 방안은 Major와 Minor가 다른 Beacon 신호를 연속으로 송수신함으로써 더 많은 정보를 이용할 수 있게 한다. 그로 인하여 iBeacon으로 사람 및 물건 인식이 가능해지고, iBeacon의 활용 범위는 더욱 넓어지게 된다. 또한, 어플리케이션 구현을 통하여 제안한 방안이 동작함을 검증하였다.

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