BeTwin: enhancing VR experiences with BLE beacon-based digital twins
Rosu, Andrei George, Simiscuka, Anderson AugustoORCID: 0000-0002-0851-2452, Togou, Mohammed Amine and Muntean, Gabriel-MiroORCID: 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.
(In Press)
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.
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).
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25 May 2023 12:21 by Anderson Augusto Simiscuka. Last Modified 25 May 2023 12:21