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vaibhav jain
vaibhav jain

Reputation: 89

How Indoor Navigation works in iOS using iBeacon?

I am working on a project that has a requirement of Indoor navigations by using iBeacon. Have been searching a lot, I only found some paid sdk and other tools. I know how iBeacon used for indoor navigation,but there is some problem. I want move user location first beacon to another but only on specific path,but now when user move than location not follow path as given by me. Please let me know. Thanks in advance!!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 473

Answers (2)

davidgyoung
davidgyoung

Reputation: 64941

While it is possible to build an indoor navigation system using beacons, it is not a trivial exercise. Beacons only provide a very small building block needed to create the overall system. Think of beacons as being a brick used to build a house. Are you up for building a house from scratch out of a pile of bricks and many other components?

You may be better off using an off-the-shelf SDK, even if it is paid, rather than building this yourself. If you do want to build it from scratch, there are several components you must build:

  1. Beacon location configuration: You need a system to register the location of each beacon in latitude/longitude and get this configuration into the mobile app.
  2. Position determination: Based on detecting the closest beacon(s), you must build a module that determines the position of the user's mobile phone based on the configuration above.
  3. Map rendering engine
  4. Coordinate system conversion from the beacon location configuration reference frame to the map coordinate frame.
  5. Wayfinding module: Based on configured routes on the map, the wayfinding module would determine where to direct the user along these routes to get to a destination.

I worked on a team that built a beacon-based indoor nav system for the Consumer Electronics Show. It took multiple team members a few months to build the system from scratch using hundreds of beacons and low-level tools. Don't underestimate the effort involved.

Upvotes: 1

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 900

This answer is assuming that the user will have no other location services (GPS etc), it could be achieved using multiple iBeacons.

  1. The all possible routes between the start and end destination would need to have to iBeacons on them.
  2. Register that the user has arrived at the first beacon, and display to them your chosen route.
  3. If you detect them getting close to any beacons which are not on your chosen route, then you know they're probably not following it.

So with enough beacons, you can accurately plot the user's location in an indoor environment (provided you know the exact location of the iBeacons beforehand).

Upvotes: 0

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