Project: Design and implementation a beacon system to improve shopping experience

Identifying a need/context : In a shopping centre, vendors need to communicate with their customers about their products, services and offers but the shortage of employees could prevent that. Buyers need to get update as soon as they approach the shops to get maximum value. So, this project could help both customers and vendors to gain the advantage of this system.

Aim: This project aims to design electronic system to help vendors during the shopping process to communicate with via Bluetooth low energy.

Objectives :

To investigate and understand Bluetooth low energy technology.

To understand how to apply this technology.

To implement mobile app that can be use in this system.

To make recommendation for how to improve the system to get farther enhancement.

Methods:

The project consists of two parts: the first part is Hardware and the second part is the software.

The hardware is designed to produce a beacon signal using Nordic Semiconductor nRF51 board. In this part Also the embedded ARM design on this board should be programmed.

The software part aims to create a program for the mobile phones that can detect the beacon signal and produce all benefit for the users also it can guide them to specific directions.