[Blog] BLE beacons for indoor navigation

cooli4enko85

GPS tracking has been serving us faithfully for years. And it still does. However, its technological nature doesn't let it get the foot in some doors. Literally 🙂

BLE beacons, in turn, are welcome guests indoors. They are cheap, easy to mount, and easy to work with.

When paired together GPS trackers and BLE beacons allow building versatile solutions for precise monitoring inside as well as outside the buildings.

In this article, we talk about several possible use cases and show they can be deployed using flespi.

https://flespi.com/blog/ble-beacons-for-indoor-navigation

If you have implemented projects using BLE beacons, tell us a little more about them.

VipulPatel

I am interesting into implement this solution for 100 rooms building.. for employee tracking I have few question if i give you my device protocol can you implement ?

lese

VipulPatel Yes Vipul. I believe my colleagues already got back to you via flespi Chat that we can get your protocol integrated. Let's continue the discussion on the details in flespi Chat.

ktakyi

Greetings Team,
I am very new here and only joined today, I have been searching for a solution I can implement in Wialon, and one of their support tech pointed me to flespy.

PROBLEM BACKGROUND
I am currently looking for a way to setup Indoor-tracking using Ble or Wirepas enabled Sensors.
The device Ble sensors will be connected to a gateway such Teltonika RUTX11 or Similar hardware.
Since the solution will be used for Indoor-Facility trackings such as hospitals, Offices, and Warehousing.
I will be tracking motorized and non-motorized equipment such as hospital beds, Medica equipment, persons, etc.

PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Digitalized existing Floor plans
Upload the floor plan to flespi or Wialon.
Placed Beacon Ancor at some designated location on the map to act as router[or beacon reader]
Assigned Ble tags to assets, persons, and the rooms to Monitor temperature, humidity, movement, doors [opening and closing].
Hardware : Magnetic Sensor, Movement Sensor,Gateway, ID sensors,
https://elainnovation.com/bluetooth-low-energy.html
https://elainnovation.com/wirepas-mesh.html

OBJECTIVE
Ability to track persons such as doctors, cleaners nurses, etc to where they have been and the room or location visited.
Whereabout of equipment, temperature, humidity, ambient light, CO2, room occupancy, etc.
Run reports on person movement, check how manytimes a cleaner visits rest/washroom to clean there.
Have realtime information about handpaper towel usage etc.
A similar solution is found here:
https://www.infsoft.com/use-cases/tracking-solution-with-information-display-for-hospital-beds
Almost similar Solution in Flespi: https://flespi.com/blog/ble-beacons-for-indoor-navigation

I will appreciate any advice and help from the honourable members.

Regards
Kwame

shal

ktakyi Hello Kwame, some things described above are already available in flespi, some are really fresh, some - to be implemented some way.

You contacted us in flespi chat already and let's continue discussion there.

aneip

Just to confirm, the configuration will consume 2 device? 1 for Tracker it self. Another is calculated positioned (fmb_positioned) right?

lese

Hello aneip. Each BLE beacon with hardcoded coordinates will need to be set up as a device in flespi, and yes, every Positioned devices, in this example fmb_positioned, will be a device too.