3.3 Testbed Setup
The BLE system which will be used to evaluate the position approaches will be divided into two parts; these will be hardware components and software components. Within this sections a description of the components and decisions on implementing will be provided for each of the two parts.

3.3.1 Hardware
The main components I will need for the evaluation of Bluetooth Low Energy are sensor tags which will be deployed as beacons in the test environment and a mobile device which will be used to gather data to be used for positioning algorithms. Both the BLE beacons and Mobile device are described below.

3.3.1.1 Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons
Bluetooth Low Energy Technology has been thoroughly studied through the CC2541 SensorTag Development Kit. A study of the key characteristics of the BLE needed to be carried out prior to starting the project Testbed, because it described how the application would work. …show more content…
The development kit consisted of a BLE sensor tag which broadcasted advertisements, and could also be used for analysis of the environment. This was an interesting feature but what was most important was its ability to provide proximity and indoor positioning for this project. The chip would be concealed within a rubber case, the chip also operated in a single coin cell battery. It contained a LED and two buttons which would allow developers to determine whether packets were being received on the application side. CC2541system-on-chip has a high-performance and low-power 8051 microcontroller which also had an In-System-Programmable Flash, 128- or