Performance Comparison of Three Types of Devices Deployed in a Typical Passenger Tracking System

Abstract

Even though the location information of travelling passengers is very valuable, offered passenger tracking solutions are not at a satisfactory cost/performance level. A cost effective passenger presence information provider system proposal is made, in present work. The design makes use of our present day’s off the shelf, popular, wireless Internet of Things devices like Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, iBeacons™ and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) adapters. Our work goes beyond a design proposal by comparing the three passenger marker devices.  Single and multiple device configurations are tested and the findings are presented. Using the findings in universally accepted performance evaluators, the performance of each configuration is determined. The performance results are compared and an evaluation of the results is provided for the reader.

Keywords: BLE, Cloud Computing, Mobile Phone, Internet of Things, Passenger Tracking System, RFID