An iBeacon-based Indoor Positioning Systems for Hospitals

• DOI: 10.14257/ijsh.2015.9.7.16
• Publication Date: 2015-12-09T01:52:34Z
• Authors: Jingjing Yang; Zhihui Wang; Xiao Zhang
• Keywords: Indoor positioning system

How to help patients find their departments or wards is an issue that needs be solved by hospitals urgently.This paper presents iBeacon-based indoor positioning system for hospitals.It firstly analyzes the advantages of iBeacon compared with common technologies; then designs based on three-layer architecture Internet things have message-push-service through clients.Finally, shortest distance algorithm Floyd used recommend nearest department ward patients.Shown as result experiment, can realized system.