Montanari, A;
Nawaz, S;
Mascolo, C;
Sailer, K;
(2017)
A Study of Bluetooth Low Energy performance for human proximity detection in the workplace.
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2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).
(pp. pp. 90-99).
IEEE
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Abstract
The ability to detect and distinguish interactions in the workplace can shed light over productivity, team work and on employees' use of space. Questionnaires and direct observations have often been used as mechanisms to identify office based interactions, however, these are either very time consuming, yield coarse grained information or do not scale to large numbers of people. Technology has been recently employed to cut costs and improve output, however precise interaction dynamics gathering often requires individuals to wear custom hardware. In this paper, we present an extensive evaluation of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as a technology to monitor people proximity in the workplace. We examine the key parameters that affect the accuracy of the detected contacts and their impact on power consumption. We study how this system can be implemented on popular wearable devices (i.e., Android Wear and Tizen) and the resulting limitations. Through a real world deployment in a commercial organisation with 25 participants we evaluate the performances of a BLE-based proximity detection technique. Our results show the suitability of BLE for workplace interaction detection and give guidance to vendors and Operating System (OS) developers on the impact of the restrictions regarding the use of BLE on commodity wearables.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | A Study of Bluetooth Low Energy performance for human proximity detection in the workplace |
| Event: | 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 13-17 March 2017, Big Island, Hawaii, USA |
| ISBN-13: | 9781509043279 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/PERCOM.2017.7917855 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2017.7917855 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Advertising, Prototypes, Sensors, Monitoring, Biomedical monitoring, Bluetooth, Employment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050129 |
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