Mobile blue gateway an application for multicasting data to populations of bluetooth low energy sensors for smart community sensing

Abstract

Information distribution and management of large Bluetooth Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks today, is a time-consuming and tedious task for the user. With the current tools available for public use, sensors have to be updated in a one-by-one basis. Remotely sensors updating through for example remote controls or gateways is not possible. The remote sensors updating concept is becoming more and more realizable due to recent advancements in Internet-enabled technologies. However, this necessitates a blue gateway system that provides services to respond to the remotely sensors updating to enable such Mobile Blue Gateway automation at the edge of today's networks for smart community sensing. To this end, this paper designs and develops a Mobile Blue Gateway which provides a novel way to communicate and distribute information updating through the use of the workload between multiple gateways. It enables the user to remotely update sensors of multiple gateways simultaneously.