August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 1m
English
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Indoor Proximity and Localization with an iTag
With the advent of Bluetooth Low Energy, a technology which is rapidly maturing, it has already started to find its way into a variety of premises.
iTags are small Bluetooth Low Energy sensors, which can be planted on things or individuals (especially toddlers) to track whether the iTag is nearby or far away:
Figure 4: iTag; source: www.amazon.com
You can buy an iTag for a few Euros online or at a nearby electronics shop.
The Bluetooth implementation of an iTag usually consists of a Link Loss and Immediate Alert Service.
To read more about the Immediate Alert Service in detail, visit https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/gatt/viewer?attributeXmlFile=org.bluetooth.service.immediate_alert.xml ...