Proximity Based Context Information Retrieval for Bluetooth Enabled Devices
Concept of Proximity Marketing is not new, and has been studied throughout the years. However, in the age of Internet of Things, the state of the art of this concept does not match general consumer's expectation of seamless environment, where information flows without the direct interaction from the user; instead, it forces user to actively participate in the system. This work proposes a flexible yet extensible general purpose system for delivering information to the end users in proximity. System shall utilize features of the Bluetooth Low Energy technology to allow for data verbosity and accessibility, and distributed data shall be standardized yet will be flexible and extensible thanks to utilizing Protocol Buffers data serialization. What is expected of the system is to deliver information that can be directly presented to the user, without having them, for example, to follow any hyperlinks. All of this is achieved by carefully studying past and recent implementations of such systems and related studies, and applying received knowledge to the target system.
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