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<p>Promoting the use of public transport is increasingly urgent in our society, both to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution and stress levels, and to ensure the high level of mobility demanded by citizens. The lack of continuous on-trip assistance for public transport users discourages many travellers. Thus, the main objective of this work is to design a personal digital travel companion for outdoor location and event detection based on Bluetooth Low Energy, which can be used for intelligent transport technology. After analysing the functional requirements, the proposal is implemented as a mobile application for beacon-based event detection. The system includes an algorithm aided by fuzzy logic to determine the action to be carried out by the user at all times, being able to distinguish between different possible events when more than one beacon is detected. To defend the scheme against possible attacks based on beacon forgery or user tracking, the proposal includes different forms of authentication for data sent from beacons and data sent from the mobile application. The results obtained in simulations show that the proposed system is a viable guidance solution for public transport, including energy saving as one of its main advantages.</p>
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Promoting the use of public transport is increasingly urgent in our society, both to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution and stress levels, and to ensure the high level of mobility demanded by citizens. The lack of continuous on-trip assistance for public transport users discourages many travellers. Thus, the main objective of this work is to design a personal digital travel companion for outdoor location and event detection based on Bluetooth Low Energy, which can be used for intelligent transport technology. After analysing the functional requirements, the proposal is implemented as a mobile application for beacon-based event detection. The system includes an algorithm aided by fuzzy logic to determine the action to be carried out by the user at all times, being able to distinguish between different possible events when more than one beacon is detected. To defend the scheme against possible attacks based on beacon forgery or user tracking, the proposal includes different forms of authentication for data sent from beacons and data sent from the mobile application. The results obtained in simulations show that the proposed system is a viable guidance solution for public transport, including energy saving as one of its main advantages.

Application of Fuzzy Logic in a Secure Beacon–Based Guidance System for Public Transportation

Department of Computer Engineering and Systems

University of La Laguna Camino San Francisco de Paula

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Campus de Tafira

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Promoting the use of public transport is increasingly urgent in our society, both to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution and stress levels, and to ensure...

Application of Fuzzy Logic in a Secure Beacon–Based Guidance System for Public Transportation

Published Online: Oct 08, 2022

Page range: 371 - 387

Received: Sep 23, 2021

Accepted: Jun 02, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2022-0027

Keywords
public transport, guidance, location system, Bluetooth Low Energy, fuzzy logic

© 2022 Jezabel Molina-Gil et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Application of Fuzzy Logic in a Secure Beacon–Based Guidance System for Public Transportation

Published Online: Oct 08, 2022

Page range: 371 - 387

Received: Sep 23, 2021

Accepted: Jun 02, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2022-0027

Keywordspublic transport, guidance, location system, Bluetooth Low Energy, fuzzy logic

© 2022 Jezabel Molina-Gil et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
public transport, guidance, location system, Bluetooth Low Energy, fuzzy logic