Bluetooth-Based Positioning Method and Apparatus

摘要

A Bluetooth-based positioning method and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method includes a mobile terminal receiving a Bluetooth signal transmitted by at least one Bluetooth beacon device; obtaining a media access control (MAC) address of each Bluetooth beacon device according to the received Bluetooth signal, and selecting Bluetooth beacon devices having a respective MAC address as a first MAC address to be reference devices; obtaining a Bluetooth signal strength and a broadcast beacon identifier of each reference device; and calculating a position of the mobile terminal according to the obtained Bluetooth signal strength and the obtained broadcast beacon identifier of each reference device. The method sets all the Bluetooth beacon devices to have a same MAC address, and MAC addresses of other normal Bluetooth devices are different from the MAC address of these Bluetooth beacon devices, thus effectively eliminating an interference from the other Bluetooth devices and preventing a malicious Bluetooth device from disguising a same beacon identifier to implement an accurate positioning.

主权项

1. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:
receiving a signal transmitted by one or more beacon devices of a plurality of beacon devices, the plurality of beacon devices sharing a same first media access control (MAC) address and broadcasting different beacon identifiers; obtaining a MAC address of each beacon device of the one or more beacon devices based at least in part on the received signal; selecting at least one beacon device having a respective MAC address as the first MAC address to be at least one reference device; obtaining a signal strength and a broadcast beacon identifier of each reference device of the at least one reference device based at least in part on the received signal; and calculating a position of the computing device based at least in part on the obtained signal strength and the obtained broadcast beacon identifier of each reference device.