Bluetooth device developed by LSGI
Prof. Wu CHEN of Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) and his research team initiated a joint Innovation and Technology Fund project with the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research Centre (LSCM) of Innovation and Technology Commission to use Smart Lamp post for mobile phone navigation in dense urban environments where GPS is not working. This project is adopted by Hong Kong SAR government as part of government Smart Lamppost project. In this project, LSGI researchers developed a multiple Bluetooth based device with various ranges for location and direction determination.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, LSCM then transferred the technology to the home quarantine monitoring electronic devices for the Centre for Health Protection of HKSAR Government. The operational range of this device is ideal for home quarantine monitoring purpose. The first batch of the devices was retrieved from LSGI’s Navigation Laboratory. Our research technology is successfully transferred to different applications for the society and contributes to the combat of the coronavirus
