Generic airport location-based services using an integrated indoor positioning system

Ian Law and Humphrey Loe
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Ian Law: Chief Information Officer, San Francisco International Airport, USA
Humphrey Loe: Senior Application Architect, San Francisco International Airport, USA

Journal of Airport Management, 2020, vol. 14, issue 2, 123-140

Abstract: This paper documents the results of an experiment to provide location-based services information to smart phone apps in an airport terminal from a back-end cloud-based server environment, replacing the need for smart phone app integration with proprietary location-based services software development kits (SDKs). Specifically, the experiment implements a low-energy Bluetooth (BLE) indoor positioning system (IPS) and a mobile application using a Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) to a cloud-hosted IPS. A proprietary SDK is not required to be compiled into the native mobile application. The experiment tests a system architecture to determine if indoor positions can be processed by a cloud system instead of by a native mobile application using only Bluetooth radio signal readings. No other sensors and readings from the compass, accelerometer or gyroscope are required by the IPS to determine device location. The IPS’s performance is evaluated by measuring location accuracy, time to process location requests, client battery usage while using the API, and scalability to handle simultaneous API requests from multiple devices.

Keywords: application programming interface (API); beacons; geolocation; guidance; indoor positioning system; indoor wayfinding; location-based services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 R4 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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