Status: open
Using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons to Improve Vulnerable Road User Safety
PA: Research Project (INF-PM-FPA / INF-PM-FPG) or
BA: Bachelor Thesis (or Studienarbeit / Großer Beleg) or
MA: Master's Thesis (or Diploma Thesis / Diplomarbeit)
A key enabler of future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is the ability to use wireless communication technologies to detect the presence of other road traffic participants. This is particularly true for pedestrians and cyclists, who are often not detected by current systems. However, it is precisely these road traffic participants who cannot easily be equipped with dedicated hardware running a custom Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) or Wireless LAN (WLAN) stack. Bluetooth Smart (BLE), on the other hand, is a low power, low cost, low bandwidth wireless technology that is being used in a variety of applications and is available in many embedded systems and mobile devices. Its is designed to enable the periodic transmission of beacons to detect the presence of other devices in the vicinity and many applications such as COVID contact tracing or asset tracking use this feature. BLE is therefore a promising candidate for detecting the presence of pedestrians and cyclists in ITS applications.
Goals of the thesis
This thesis will continue to investigate the feasibility of using Bluetooth Smart (BLE) Generic ATTribute Profile (GATT) beacons for road safety applications. This thesis can focus on any of a number of different aspects of using BLE beacons for road safety, including:
- Hardware (e.g., beacons, receivers)
- Software (e.g., stack, application)
- Experiments (e.g., range, reliability)
- Evaluation (e.g., performance, usability)
- Simulation (e.g., OMNeT++ Veins or INET)
Collaboration
This thesis continues a larger collaboration with teams at TU Braunschweig and TU Ilmenau.