Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacon Single and Multi-Channel Scanning Delay Evaluation for Improved Home Automation User Experiences
Mohamed Ragab Mahmoud Farghaly1, Yewguan Soo2, Kim Chuan Lim3, Feng Duan4
1Mohamed Ragab Mahmoud Farghaly, Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia.
2Yew Guan Soo, Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia.
3Kim Chuan Lim, Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia.
4Feng Duan, College of Information Technical Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Manuscript received on 21 August 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 02 September 2019 | Manuscript Published on 16 September 2019 | PP: 773-778 | Volume-8 Issue-2S6 July 2019 | Retrieval Number: B11440782S619/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.B1144.0782S619
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Abstract: The demand of improving home automation system to control the home appliance in conveniently and efficiently leads to be more concerned about what the user daily activities the way they want to control their home appliances. Since the BLE has the ability to advertise data without the need to be connected to a master (known as BLE beacon). Measuring the best response for best user experience for ESP32 beacon scanner to be used for light control is studied by make the advertisement happen at single and multi-channel and using an ESP32 as scanner with different scanning paraments (ESP32-80 and ESP32-20). The result showed that not only the number of packets on ESP32-80 and ESP32-20 increase, but also it achieve a time response that less than 100ms with 59.47% and 49.93% of received packets for ESP32-80 and ESP32-20 respectively. Advertising on single channel will not only reduce the response time (21% and 14.73% of first packet received on ESP32-80 and ESP32-20 respectively at time that less than 100ms) but also reduce the number of packets received on the ESP32-80 and ESP32-20. It is also shows the ability of using ESP32 as a beacon scanner for home automation system.
Keywords: Home Automation, BLE, Beacon, User Experiences.
Scope of the Article: Energy Harvesting and Transfer for Wireless Sensor Networks