摘要:As of now, BLE beacons are considered as one of the key technology revolutions to provide object identifications and trajectories of objects with low energy. The services leveraging BLE beacons include in-door positioning service, smart home, mobile advertising and context-aware services. The more popular such services are the more useful easy and rapid development of such services becomes. In this paper, we present a service platform named BSmart, which supports the core functionalities required for beacon-based services through the associated RESTful Web services. These RESTful Web services provide the functions of beacon/user management, beacon data update/filtering, beacon data searching/monitoring, and alarm notification. With the help of the BSmart platform, developers of services using BLE beacons can rapidly build their services without implementation of core functions related with BLE beacons.
关键词:BLE Beacon; Beacon-based Service; Service Platform; RESTful Web ; Service