Title: iCampusGuide: a multi-purpose guide system in intelligent campus

Authors: Chunyan Yu; Hui Qi; Haibao Chen; Shenghui Zhao; Sheng Wang

Addresses: School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, 239000, China ' School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, 239000, China ' School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, 239000, China ' School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, 239000, China ' School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, 239000, China

Abstract: As an important application of intelligent campus, campus guide aims to help visitors get to the destination. In this paper, a flexible and low-cost campus guide model named iCampusGuide is proposed, which generalises the problem of university campus guide including objectives, constraints, system and algorithms. The proposed iCampusGuide provides visiting reservation, route navigation, parking guideline and broadcasting introduction of buildings during the navigation. Technically, iCampusGuide adopts ibeacons for accurate locating and navigation, provides the parking suggestion by sending real-time snapshots from the parking lot nearest to the destination. Particularly, iCampusGuide provides business mode, tour mode, driving mode, walking mode for different purposes. Each mode uses different route navigation algorithms. To verify the model, a client-server software is developed and implemented in a real university campus. Experiments show that the model is effective.

Keywords: intelligent campus guide; beacon; intelligent campus; intelligent parking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2019.106173

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2019 Vol.14 No.6, pp.546 - 558

Received: 10 Sep 2018
Accepted: 29 Apr 2019
Published online: 01 Apr 2020 *

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