Bluetooth Positioning System

Josef Hallberg, Marcus Nilsson, K°are Synnes
Lule°a University of Technology

Three different ways of positioning with Bluetooth have been developed. With a registered positioning service a Bluetooth device has an active role in the positioning task as it sends a position on request. A Bluetooth device can also take a more passive role in a positioning task, where the unique address of the device is used by a connected device to look up respective position in a database. It is also possible to forward a position gained from the positioning platform using the peer to peer characteristics in Bluetooth.

Reliability of Bluetooth
Boris A. Krassi
Helsinki University of Technology

Bluetooth is a rapidly developing technology
Instant wireless connection
Highly adaptable, integration, low power
Can be Master of one Piconet, slave in other.

Bit error rate (BER) - 10^-3
(estimate in advance, at design stage)?
High BER due to low transmission power.

unlike IrDA, RS & WLAN technologies, Bluetooth has more sophisticated functionality, and a priori estimated chip's reliability comparable to WLAN's hardware set or even a little better. No competitors to Bluetooth's low energy consumption. Strong coding could help improve reliability.

Had meeting yesterday 05/11/09 with Svetlana,

Happy with Proposal and need to submit to Pat Browne.

Decided to look more into background, read up on some papers.
Need to do up a Plan of tasks/stages, for project management.

Need to explain better what the project will be doing.

Next meeting 12/11/09

Got the following references from DIT library
IEEE
Bluetooth Performance Analysis in Personal Area Network
A Key Establishment Protocol for Bluetooth Scatternets
Bluetooth Sensor Network Positioning System with Dynamic Calibration
Enhancing Accuracy Performance of Bluetooth
Positioning with Bluetooth

Science Direct
Development of local positioning system using bluetooth

Westlaw UK
Legal issues in wireless building automation: an EU perspective

Had first meeting with Svetlana on 29/10/08, emailed brief outline of project.
Discussed this and recommended some background research and to produce proposal.