TITLE:
An Internet of Things Platform with Google Eddystone Beacons
AUTHORS:
Aronee Dasgupta, Roopa Nagaraj, K. Nagamani
KEYWORDS:
Internet of Things, Raspberry Pi, Beacon, Eddystone
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.9 No.6,
June
17,
2016
ABSTRACT: Consumer adoption of Internet of Things devices
is increasing rapidly. About 66% of consumers mean to buy an associated home
gadget by 2019. Beacon technology helps in providing actionable insights to
businesses through visual heat maps generated by the consumers and these maps
are further processed by machine learning algorithms. Google’s open source
Eddystone beacon format released in 2015, mitigates the problem of high cost
and provides an open source alternative for developers. The aim of the proposed
work is to provide a low cost, reliable, flexible, scalable and open source
alternative for small and medium scale enterprises. In the proposed work, an
Internet of Things platform is configured and developed. The Raspberry Pi is
configured as an Eddystone beacon through a NodeJs server. An android app is
developed which is the front end of the platform and web services are deployed
on the cloud.