The objective for this project is to further develop location-based algorithms along with a specialized phone application using iBeacon™ technology. This is done in an effort to aid in the tracking of people’s distance from specific exhibits within a museum, track the room they’re in, and provide context on the exhibits throughout the museum. This information can then be compiled and sent to a cloud-based server. The project began with wide-ranging data collection in several different environments including classrooms, several museum rooms of differing sizes. This data collected, based on different transmission powers and differing distances, allowed us to obtain several pathloss models and to calculate standard deviation as well as shadow fading of the iBeacon™ devices.

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Creator

• St.Pierre, Sean
• Chen, Wei
• Hasenfeld, Evan Robert
• Loftin, Steven A

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-022818-165341

Advisor

• Mazumder, Shamsur R
• Pahlavan, Kaveh

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-02-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright