BLE beacon indoor positioning

BLE beacon indoor positioning uses small Bluetooth Low Energy transmitters placed through a building so a safety device can report which floor, wing or room a worker is in - where GPS cannot reach.

GPS is the backbone of outdoor location, and nearly useless four walls in. In a hospital, a corrections facility or a large store, 'the address' is not an answer - responders need the ward, the level, the room. Battery-powered BLE beacons fixed through the building broadcast identifiers; the worker's device hears the nearest beacons and reports its position against a floor map.

For duress response, the difference is minutes. An activation that says 'Building C, Level 2, East Wing' sends help to the right corridor; one that says '14 Example Street' sends help to a front desk.

Beacons are cheap, run for years on coin cells, and need no network of their own - the worker's device does the reporting. The Duress Eagle uses BLE beacon positioning alongside 4G and GPS; Phoenix reports beacon position via its paired phone.

Common questions

Do BLE beacons track workers all day?

The beacons themselves transmit only an identifier - they see nothing. Position is reported by the worker's device according to the system's privacy settings, typically during an alert or active safety session.

How many beacons does a site need?

Enough for every area where a worker might raise an alarm to be within range of at least one - typically one per room or zone of interest. Placement follows the risk assessment, not the floor plan.

BLE beacon indoor positioning

Common questions

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