iBeacon enabled indoor positioning for warehouse management

Enterprises are paying more attention to warehouse management which has a pivotal role in enhancing productivity of the whole supply chain. As a key enabling technology for business intelligence(BI) applications, indoor positioning contributes to the object location awareness in warehouse management such as order picking and stock taking. In this work, we propose a new and cost-effective indoor positioning approach using iBeacon technology released by Apple, Inc. for warehouse management. Also, improved trilateration and fingerprinting algorithms are proposed for a real-life case of warehouse management. Our results show that the proposed scheme can significantly improve the performance of order picking and stock taking process in warehouse management with high accuracy. The location related business intelligence can be achieved.

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