This paper presents an in-depth overview of the Bluetooth 5.1 Direction Finding standard's
potentials, thanks to enhancing the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) firmware. This improvement …

Bluetooth® technology has been used in the provision of various types of location-based
services for many years. Those location services fall into two high-level categories known as …

Nowadays, positioning technologies are used in a wide variety of areas such as providing
driving directions and tracking valuable goods to name a few. Since the introduction of the …

This paper presents the experimental evaluation of a Bluetooth-based positioning system.
The method has been implemented in a Bluetooth-capable handheld device. Empirical tests …

There is an increasing demand for indoor positioning systems as location based services
are becoming more and more widespread. However, this field of research has not yet …

The new direction-finding feature incorporated in version 5.1 of the Bluetooth Core
Specification accelerates the development of applications in the context of the Internet of …

The high availability of handheld devices with Bluetooth technology allows users to be
located with sufficient precision for offering context-sensitive services. The authors present …

Recently, there is a high interest for appropriate systems and methods to localize the
position of people and their devices in indoor environments (eg home, office, hospital). From …

In the last few years, indoor localization has attracted researchers and commercial
developers. Indeed, the availability of systems, techniques and algorithms for localization …

Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology coupled with fingerprinting provides a simple way to
position users with high accuracy in indoor environments. In this paper, we study the effect of …