Hi all,
I was browsing through various profiles and discussion on LinkedIN and came across this one very interesting product which I was not aware. It is basically dependent on the the bluetooth of your mobile phone. Once the system is installed on your airport which basically is a bluetooth gateway. This than keeps track of the length of queue and dwell time of passengers at key points in airport. Interesting isn't it??
That means if I have this at my airport it is like a real life simulation were you can get results similar to the various simulation models, that is very interesting because if the passenger queuing and dwell times could than be linked to the passenger profiles and you can get a perfect data for the simulation model and you can use it for design and development on other airports. The only thing is does this thing require passenger acknowledgement or is passenger aware that he/she is being tracked. Is it not intruding privacy?? Just wondering.
I than searched for similar products on Google and wow there are many others that provide similar capability!! This sounds cool tool for airport planners like us, atleast very important to create more data and more statisitics!! It is lot of fun!!!
The link to the site is http://www.blipsystems.com/. Have a look and let me know your thought as well!!
Cheers!!
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In general, nothing in bluetooth would work unless there is an acknowledgment of the device owner - quite often manual.
ReplyDeleteThe alternative to this system could be to assign an RFID tag on a boarding pass or something with the passengers - and @ various locations - RFID readers could detect them.
The movement of the passenger is interesting not only in analyse queue lengths but many other scenario, for example which of the facilities (toilets, tea houses etc.) are used more often and in what pattern (just before arrival, etc.) - are people able to locate required stuffs? even more important could be to see how effective are fire or other disaster drills and how effectively people find their right way.
In general though the information should only be used in a mode of creating statistical data and not to do individual tracking - security systems often tries to do that and fail horribly..
Dear Dpihan Mehta
ReplyDeleteThe comment about Bluetooth acknowledgement is correct in most Bluetooth cases, but not when it comes to tracking.
Bluetooth tracking WILL work without user involvement if the phone is in discoverable mode.
Based on mapping our Bluetooth tracking results in screening facilities in Copenhagen and Manchester with data from the ariport metal scanners, we know that 15% of all passengers has a tackable phone.
The precentage of Bluetooth phone is much higher, but 15 % a phone with BLuetooth on, and with Bluetooth in discoverable mode.
So a Bluetooth phone in discoverable mode can be tracking without ANY user involvement.
Lars Tørholm
CTO, BLIP Systems