A WIRELESS CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON SMART BLUETOOTH AND IBEACON TECHNOLOGY FOR AUDITING THE PATROLS
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2016-12-04
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International Journal of Scientific Research in Information Systems and Engineering
Abstract
Patrol systems are used as a method of ensuring security and protection of large areas and facilities such as
university campuses, military zones, etc. In general, security personnel assigned to the patrol system visit the pre-determined
checkpoints at regular intervals and are obliged to make the safety control of these locations. Security personnel (guards) are
also audited to check if they covered all the essential control points on time or not. In recent years, considering energy
efficiency, new Bluetooth devices and protocols are designed and produced. One of the most popular low-energy Bluetooth
protocols is Smart Bluetooth (version 4.0). In this work, we integrated mobile devices (smart phone or tablet) with IBeacons.
IBeacons are devices emitting beacons using Smart Bluetooth signals. Since Smart Bluetooth consumes low energy, these
devices are small in size, have long life durations and very cheap. In this work, we propose and implement a new system to
record the patrol officers’ movements in the subject areas. At the proposed system, IBeacons are first deployed in the
monitoring areas. The location and the identification of the deployed IBeacon are stored in a central database. We developed
a mobile application for Android devices which can scan the environment for IBeacon signals. The mobile application
collects the sensed IBeacon IDs, stamps it with a time tag and uploads it along with the mobile device ID to the central
database. Using these records, we can monitor the movements of the security guards. We have also developed a web
application to generate an executive summary report from these records.
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computer engineering