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BeTwin: enhancing VR experiences with BLE beacon-based digital twins

Rosu, Andrei George, Simiscuka, Anderson Augusto orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0851-2452, Togou, Mohammed Amine and Muntean, Gabriel-Miro orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9332-4770 (2023) BeTwin: enhancing VR experiences with BLE beacon-based digital twins. In: IEEE International Conference on Communications, 28 May – 1 June 2023, Rome.

Abstract
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is one of the technologies that can be used for short-range communications. BLE beacons are small wireless devices that can store URLs and real-world data, including GPS locations and identifiers. This article proposes BeTwin, an efficient solution that integrates BLE beacons with a digital twin environment in order to enhance and customise a virtual 3D platform, bridging the real and virtual worlds. The beacons are used to bring information from real objects into the virtual platform. We extend the Eddystone messaging protocol and investigate the impact of beacon distance, energy levels, and number of beacons on the system performance. We also describe a testbed consisting of a virtual environment, a beacon reader along with beacons, and assess its performance in terms of communications latency, Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), and number of beacons.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Digital Twins;, Beacons; BLE; Virtual Reality
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Published in: ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. . IEEE.
Publisher:IEEE
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279218
Copyright Information:© 2023 IEEE
Funders:European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant 870610 (TRACTION Project), Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) via the Frontiers Projects grant 21/FFP-P/10244 (FRADIS) and Research Centres grant 12/RC/2289_P2 (INSIGHT).
ID Code:28184
Deposited On:25 May 2023 12:21 by Anderson Augusto Simiscuka . Last Modified 16 Nov 2023 13:57
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