Understanding the Shopping Mall and Supermarket Solution - Personnel and Asset Management
Figure 1 shows implementation of the personnel and asset management IoT solution.
Bind Bluetooth tags to personnel and assets. Built-in Bluetooth modules of APs scan for Bluetooth tags in the surrounding environment and collect BLE broadcast frames sent by Bluetooth tags. A BLE broadcast frame carries Bluetooth tag information such as the RSSI calibration value, battery level, and device disconnection alarms.
Bluetooth tags periodically send BLE broadcast frames but do not need to connect to the WLAN.
Use a scanning terminal to associate or manually record mappings between Bluetooth tags and personnel/assets, and synchronize the mappings to the location server so that the location server can identify the personnel or assets based on the Bluetooth tags.
The APs report Bluetooth tag information to the AC, such as the RSSI calibration value, power, and Bluetooth tag disconnection alarms.
The AC then reports all the Bluetooth tag information and Bluetooth tag disconnection alarms to the location server.
Make a floor plan on the location server, create a location map model, add APs with built-in Bluetooth modules, and determine the AP installation locations. Compute locations of Bluetooth tags, and provide graphical location information and moving tracks of personnel and assets, and generate asset reports. In addition, you can monitor working status of the Bluetooth tags.