Overview of the Shopping Mall and Supermarket Solution - Personnel and Asset Management

Scenario Overview

In places such as shopping malls, employees and assets need to be located accurately so that the shopping malls can identify their locations and movements, facilitating management.

To meet requirements in these scenarios, Huawei provides the personnel and asset management IoT solution that uses Bluetooth tags to accurately locate personnel and assets.

Solution Benefits

This solution brings the following benefits:

Location information about personnel and assets can be graphically displayed, and moving tracks of personnel and assets and asset reports can be queried. This facilitates unified personnel and asset management and control.
A WLAN can be reused as a personnel and asset management IoT network to achieve network integration, reduce network deployment and maintenance costs, and help administrators centrally manage the network.

Network Architecture

As shown in Figure 1, the network architecture of the personnel and asset management IoT solution consists of the terminal layer, access layer, network layer, and application layer.

Figure 1 Network architecture

Terminal layer

Bluetooth tags are deployed at this layer.
Access layer

APs are deployed at this layer.
Network layer

ACs and switches are deployed at this layer.
Application layer

The location server is deployed at this layer.

Related Products

**Table 1** Related products
Device	Function	Vendor
AP	Provides wireless network coverage for mobile phones. An AP receives broadcast frames from Bluetooth tags through its built-in Bluetooth module.	Huawei Only the AP2050DN-E, AP2051DN-E, AP4050DN-E, AP4051TN, AP6052DN, AP7050DE, AP7052DE, AP7052DN, AP4050DE-M, AP4050DE-M-S, AP4050DE-B-S, AP7060DN, AirEngine 5760-10, AP7152DN, AP8050DN, AP8050DN-S, AP8050TN-HD, AP8082DN, AP8150DN, AP8182DN, R250D-E, and R251D-E can be used.
AC	Manages APs, delivers configurations to them, and works together with them.	Huawei
Switch	It is used to build a networking structure and forward packet data on the network.	Huawei
Bluetooth tag	Periodically sends BLE broadcast frames for APs to locate personnel or assets. Bluetooth tags are bound to personnel or assets	Minew
Location server	Functions as a location server. You can make maps and set BLE device location information on it. The location server collects Bluetooth tag data for location computing and storage, and performs personnel and asset management. It provides a cloud-based web user interface (UI) and an app UI for users to manage and maintain personnel and assets.	EtoneSystem