Centralized Beacon Management Service for Scalable Proximity Advertising
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon management systems lack a centralized solution for efficiently managing and commissioning beacons across multiple enterprises, leading to fragmented and inflexible proximity sensing applications.
Innovation Solution
A centralized beacon management service that stores and manages beacon information in a database, allowing enterprises to commission and configure beacons through a web-based portal, and sends relevant beacon information to client devices based on proximity sensing data, enabling scalable and flexible advertising and event triggering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a centralized beacon management service is implemented, then beacon management efficiency and scalability are improved, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates beacon management capabilities across multiple enterprises into a single centralized service platform. This merging of previously distributed management functions into one unified system improves overall management efficiency and enables scalable operations while reducing redundant infrastructure requirements across different enterprise deployments.
2Adaptability or versatility
If beacon information is stored centrally in a database, then data accessibility and service flexibility are improved, but data security and privacy protection challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized beacon management service acts as an intermediary layer between enterprises and the beacon database. This mediator architecture enables flexible data access and service delivery while maintaining security controls, authentication mechanisms, and authorized access policies that protect sensitive beacon information and enterprise data.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple enterprises share a centralized beacon management system, then resource utilization and cost efficiency are improved, but system coordination and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized beacon management service is designed as a universal platform that serves multiple enterprises simultaneously. This multi-functional system handles diverse beacon management requirements, data storage, proximity sensing operations, and advertising event coordination for different enterprises within a single unified infrastructure, maximizing resource utilization while providing enterprise-specific customization capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
A centralized beacon management service includes a beacon database for storing beacon information for different enterprises. The beacon database includes tables that associate beacons deployed by enterprises with beacon information. The beacon information can include information for commissioning the beacons and payload data to be broadcast by the beacon to client devices within communication range of the beacon. Based on proximity sensing data provided by a client device, beacon information is retrieved and sent to the client device over a communication channel (e.g., WiFi, cellular) established with the client device.