Indoor positioning system using BLE beacon to improve knowledge about museum visitors

Generally, a museum has many locations and artifacts collection that display
for visitors. Museum manager often have difficulty in obtaining information
on visitors behavior such as, is there are particular locations/artifacts in
the museum that are frequently/rarely visit by museum visitors, how long
visitors spend their time in particular locations/artifacts, etc. The purpose of
this study is try to build a suitable system in order to improve knowledge about
the behavior of museum visitors by identifying the position of visitors
in the museum. This study uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacon that
place around the museum. The visitor mobile phone will detect BLE beacon
signal, then the mobile phone application will calculated the visitor’s mobile
phone position using the signal strength from the BLE beacons that are
detected. The application then sends it to the computer server to display
it in as museum visitor heat map. From this information, the museum manager
could find out the visitors behavior movement and know which areas/artifacts
that frequently/rarely visit by museum visitors. According to distance
error testing which compare real location and position of the calculation, it is
show that the average of distance error is around 140 cm. So, it can be
concluded that the information obtained is sufficient enough to represent
the position of museum visitors