Design, implement and perform empirical experiments
with an extension of the Blip System that can track non-visible
mobile Bluetooth units.
Master's Thesis/15ECTS project; workload: 40% theoretical/60% practical.
To explore how an advanced inquiry based Bluetooth tracking system can be extended with paging based tracking.
Design, implement and perform empirical experiments
with an extension of the Blip System that can track non-visible
mobile Bluetooth units.
A tracking system is a system that is able in
real time to track the geographical location (e.g., x-y coordinate,
room, or zone) of mobile units.
The Blip System, based on the Bluetooth radio technology, is able to
track mobile units (e.g., phones) that have Bluetooth and are set to
visible mode. It performs tracking by a number of Blip nodes, each
of which is part of a Blip zone; whenever a Blip node detects the
radio signal from a Bluetooth unit appearing or disappearing, it
sends a signal to applications using the Blip System. Applications
can then provide location aware services, based on the zone
information thus captured.
Mobile units that have been set to non-discoverable mode in
Bluetooth (e.g., iPhones and Android mobiles) are not trackable by
the present Blip system. However, if the MAC address of a unit is
known, and the unit is connectable, it can be tracked using
Bluetooth paging.
The research question in this project is how to design an extension of the Blip system to perform paging based tracking. Some questions to consider are
