KR101895774B1

KR101895774B1 - Location And Connected Information Service by Stay or Moving Beacon In The Air

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Publication number: KR101895774B1
Application number: KR1020160017518A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 이원찬
Original assignee: 이원찬
Priority date: 2016-02-16
Filing date: 2016-02-16
Publication date: 2018-09-05
Also published as: KR20170096303A

Abstract

The present invention is based on the information communication technology. The frequency of the Bluetooth is 2400 ~ 2483.5MHz, and various personalized services can be implemented by using this. In the beacon service system using the Bluetooth, the role of the access point of the beacon is attached to the ground or fixed But rather a method for constructing a system that provides various personal services through smart devices within a range of frequencies from the beacon by allowing the public to stay or move through a drone, a star or a balloon.
To explain the drawing in detail,
That is, the beacons floating in the air continuously broadcast the Bluetooth signal. The position of the beacon floating in the air has a basic primary position value through the GPS value and the application of the smart device on the ground is corrected to the secondary position value through the installed smart device. Here, smart devices that serve as AP managers on the ground, such as 106 and 107, and smart devices that receive services may or may not be the same. In other words, some smart devices on the ground act as AP Manager, but when the real-time correction value according to the location falls within the error range, the AP Manager mode automatically goes to the user mode. In other words, from the side of the user smart device, the primary GPS map position value is received through floating flying beacon in the air, and the secondary correction value is determined through the secondary smart phone.
The calibration method uses the positioning algorithm to correct the map value, the distance between the smartphone and the signal strength measurement value, and the error can be corrected within 1M.
In other words, beacons floating in the air may be fixed in real time or may be moved, which receives a primary position value as a GPS value and designates a position range of the flying beacon through a smart device receiving the frequency of the beacon as a secondary , And also specifies the location of the user smart device.
A beacon floating in the air continuously broadcasts a Bluetooth signal. When the smart device is located within the range, it receives information such as Txpower, Major, Minor, Mac Address, etc. 204. It is calculated as a unique position value of the beacon, This is matched with the map of the GPS through the GPS module built in the existing smartphone and serves to correct the position value. The corrected position data is sent to the Contents Management Server, which goes through the Internet. In this way, the corrected position value sent to the server gets the message indentity of that position, which has a unique message ID value for each user. The unique message ID is matched to each smartphone user ID, and a specific unique message can be provided to a specific user at a specific location along the matching ID road. In other words, as in 201, this message becomes a location-based service of the user and a specific information providing service that can be received only at the specific location.
The AP manager 306 is physically included in the smart device, and manages the activation and inactivity of the beacon floating in the air in software, and the battery condition. After the position and status values are corrected, And it is a module that continuously repeats the process on and off, which is controlled through communication with the server, which can be managed using the Internet network. Again, the Bluetooth signal coming into the user's smartphone is divided into 304 location service modules and 305 information service modules, which can be managed through 310 integrated management systems.
The values returned from each module can provide location and information services to users within a range of specific flying beacons located within a specific location.
When 400 flying beacons in Fig. 4 are in Positioin1, x1, y1, and z1 operate nearest to User Position1. However, as shown in 401, when the flying beacon is in Position2, x1, y1, and z1 are the same, but the closest match to User Position2. That is, the coordinate value of the flying beacon has a position value of three dimensions in proportion to the user position. In other words, the GPS takes the position value on the map through the absolute position of the flying beacon and the user smartphone, and the flying beacon and the user smart phone take each other's three-dimensional position value based on the distance between them. This means that the absolute value of the location value of the flying beacon captured by the GPS only matches when the absolute value of the user smartphone comes in.
By doing so, the location of the user's smartphone can be located on the map within the range of the flying beacon via the flying beacon. In this way, a user smartphone with a specific location on the Flying Beacon map can provide location based service and information providing service to users through 410 integrated management system, and its accuracy can be less than 1M.
In other words, instead of simply measuring the location of the user smartphone and the person on the ground as the location value of the flying beacon floating in the air, when the flying beacon and the user smartphone are included in the intersection of the range of the GPS, Flying beacons are mapped in the range and the response of the user smartphone is corrected in the range again. Therefore, GPS, flying beacon and user smart phone are triangularly formed to extract the closest mathematical value . This is mathematically equivalent to the theory that the equilateral triangle lies at the center of the intersection of vertically descending lines from any vertex. That is, the line starting from three different points represents the size of the map, and the intersection point represents the location of the user's smartphone. Once again, the vertices of the world of the equilateral triangle are respectively the GPS position value, the flying beacon position value, And the position value of a true user smartphone is the intersection point of three vertexes. This is because each value is an intersection.
The present invention will be described in more detail. It is not a location providing service that installs a beacon at a fixed position in a specific space and obtains a fixed value and calculates a position within the range through the beacon, By using a mechanism, the beacon is kept in the air or moved, and the area where the signal is reached is firstly GPS-mapped, and a specific space is again mapped through the flying beacon installed in the air. The space thus mapped forms the vertex intersection of the right triangle by using the user's smartphone as the third access point again. The intersection points on the map of the formed space are obtained through an application installed in the user smart phone, and the location becomes the point where the user smart phone is located in the first specific space.
The user smartphone also functions as a hardware management function of the access point of the flying beacon. The process is activated when the user 's location is within the frequency range of the flying beacon. After a certain time, the data is stored in the DB, The smartphone again works as a pure application user mode.
In other words, the flying beacon does not provide a fixed access point to the space, but it converts the space of the frequency domain into the area capable of providing one location service, and thus the range of the location-based service To an infinite space.

Description

Location and Connected Information Service by Stay or Moving Beacon In The Air.

The present invention relates to a technology for implementing various location services and information providing services necessary for our life through a smart device by using a conventional standardized communication technology method with an existing smart device using a Bluetooth signal and a method of configuring the system . The Bluetooth frequency can range from a few tens of meters to a few hundreds of meters depending on the performance of the battery. This frequency of BlueTooth can be regarded as one identification value and it can be utilized to provide a variety of Internet services through linkage with existing information systems. Basically, Bluetooth frequency uses a personal frequency band, but it has the most useful features as a communication protocol of personal portable devices, but it has been most widely used as an earphone for listening to simple music due to a lack of performance of a transceiver, communication, and a smart device Currently, the performance of frequency transceiver and related software has improved greatly, and a variety of personalized services through smartphones have become available. It is an object of the present invention to allow a user who owns a smart device located on the ground to receive various location services and information providing services by designating one Bluetooth access point as a Bluetooth access point.

Bluetooth (English: Bluetooth) is an industry standard for personal short range wireless communications (PANs), first developed by Ericsson in 1994. Bluetooth was later formulated by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) and officially announced on May 20, 1999. Sony Ericsson, IBM, Nokia and Toshiba participated in the Bluetooth SIG. The name Bluetooth is the English equivalent of the Danish King Herald Blatant. The proposer was Jim Kardach, who suggested reading the Long Ships historical novel about the Viking and Herald Blatts of Frans Gunnar Bengtsson. Just as Bluetooth unifies Scandinavia, it means that wireless communication should be unified with Bluetooth.

Bluetooth using the IEEE 802.15.1 standard is an industry standard for PANs (Personal Area Networks). Bluetooth allows multiple devices to communicate with each other using radio frequencies that are available globally at a safe and low cost.

Bluetooth has a wireless intensity that can penetrate a concrete wall and is now widely used in wireless mice, wireless keyboards, as well as wireless earphones, wireless headsets and wireless speakers.

Nowadays, the performance of the Bluetooth device is improved, so you can monitor a distance of about 3 inches (5 cm) to 150 bits (about 45 cm). Compared to NFC (near field communication), it has a wider range of beacons that can detect position more precisely than GPS (satellite navigation system), and it has a wireless sensor that recognizes the near location. Beacon is installed as a smartphone with Bluetooth 4.0 technology In this approach, beacons and smart phones can provide information and services through mutual recognition.

Based on the above-described Bluetooth-based technology, it has been described that a technology for providing location services and information providing services to users on the ground by placing and moving beacons in places such as drone, Content.

The present invention basically provides a location and an information providing service based on a Bluetooth communication technology, but it does not provide an information PUSH method by simply sorting locations and information through reception of BlueTooth, It is possible to provide a specific position and information value to a person or object located within a specific range of the ground by interlocking the three-dimensional coordinate value of the beacon with its GPS value, and also, by using the provided position value and information value, A method for constructing a hyperlinked object Internet in which all objects are connected through interworking is a problem to be solved by the present invention.

The present invention focuses not only on an access point located on a specific location on the ground but also on a flying beacon that transmits a signal while moving in the air. Instead of constructing a service using the Bluetooth frequency communication concept, The goal is to create a way to organize networking for each entity by using a flying beacon as a point, and by assigning a specific ID value to people and objects on the ground through moving beacons in the air.

In the case of the ground space, it is possible to match the current location with the map data to be included in the GPS range. However, in the case of the underground space, the location and space are specified by narrowing the range from the large classification value of the GPS map to the small classification value. A method for specifying the position of an underground space through a flying beacon floating in a space with respect to the space is described.

That is, the greatest feature of the present invention is that if there is a specific three-dimensional space without being bound to a particular ground, underground, or underwater, a three-dimensional (x, y, z) value is given to the space, It gives the identity of the space, and by assigning the specific identity to people and objects in the space based on the given identity, it also plays a role of including it in the network.

That is, the location service described in the present invention can develop a specialized service capable of exchanging information with a location regardless of whether it is covered by a GPS area or both in the water and in the air, and can include the space itself as a component of the network It can be a means.

The present invention acquires an identity through a frequency of Bluetooth, which is not an existing NFC or other short-range communication method, and transmits the position data with high accuracy through matching with a map provided by GPS or other methods to the application of the smart device, It is shown from the aspect of system configuration methodology that a specialized service can be created for each user and object by location using the system.

In other words, it is not a beacon attached to an existing ground or a specific object, but a position value is given to a specific space through a beacon staying or moving in the air, and its accuracy is compared with a GPS or other existing position value, , And the accurate location information thus obtained can be provided to a network by providing a specific position value to a person or object in the space, thereby providing various objects Internet services.

For example, students are exercising in a specific athletic field, placing a drone, a lead, or a balloon with a beacon in the air, so that the frequency of the beacon is recognized as an Identiy value of the particular playground, Values are matched on the map of the GPS to increase the accuracy of the actual position and then identify the identity of the smartphone or sensor of the students who are exercising on the playground. Based on the location-based information service and its specific identity, all the objects in the playground can be included as individual networking components. In practice, students will be able to exchange information about various information systems and other information about how they have traveled on the athletics, how they have moved on the athletics, how much calories they have consumed through sensors installed on the athletics, and so on.

Beacons that remain attached or moved to the air are not fixed at a specific place, so that remote movement of the service range is possible, and it is also possible to facilitate identification of identities moving out of range within a range, It is possible to realize more efficient Internet service than existing beacons or other location service access points. This is the key and the greatest feature of the present invention.

Figure 1 shows a composition for Flying Beacon.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the Logic of Beacon on The Air.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the Data Flow for Flying Beacon.
FIG. 4 is a view of the architecture of Flying Beacon.
FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the Service Flow of Flying Beacon.
FIG. 6 is a Service Diagram of Flying Beacon.

The present invention is based on the information communication technology. The Bluetooth wireless system can implement various personalized services using the Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency band of 2400 ~ 2483.5 MHz. In the beacon service system using the Bluetooth, How to build a system that provides various personal services through smart devices within the range of frequencies from the beacon by allowing the public to stay or move through drone, This frequency is a frequency band allocated for personal use in almost all countries and is suitable for use in personal wireless communications because it does not need to be licensed for radio use. Beacons transmitting this frequency and various kinds of senses in the receiving smart device can be used to configure various kinds of Internet super networking network.

To explain the drawing in detail,

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a composition for a flying beacon, that is, a flying beacon (hereinafter referred to as a flying beacon).

First, 101 shows a flying beacon floating in the air and continuously broadcasts a signal. The position of the flying beacon has different positions in the air from 102 to 112,113. Flying beacons located in various spaces continually broadcast Bluetooth signals, and when a 103 smartphone enters the range and receives a signal, it executes a module such as 104 to compare with the GPS map. In parallel with it, the beacon has a unique position value in space, such as 105, which is controlled by 111 integrated management systems. 108 Contents Management Server DB receives Flag value through 109 and selects PUSH or information to be provided as a result value through a calculator. This, of course, leads to the status and authentication of the flying beacon device through the Access Point Manager located in 110 Middle-tier. That is, the beacons floating in the air continuously broadcast the Bluetooth signal. The position of the beacon floating in the air has a basic primary position value through the GPS value and the application of the smart device on the ground is corrected to the secondary position value through the installed smart device. Here, smart devices that serve as AP managers on the ground, such as 106 and 107, and smart devices that receive services may or may not be the same. In other words, some smart devices on the ground act as AP Manager, but when the real-time correction value according to the location falls within the error range, the AP Manager mode automatically goes to the user mode. In other words, from the side of the user smart device, the primary GPS map position value is received through floating flying beacon in the air, and the secondary correction value is determined through the secondary smart phone.

The calibration method uses the positioning algorithm to correct the map value, the distance between the smartphone and the signal strength measurement value, and the error can be corrected within 1M.

In other words, beacons floating in the air may be fixed in real time or may be moved, which receives a primary position value as a GPS value and designates a position range of the flying beacon through a smart device receiving the frequency of the beacon as a secondary , And also specifies the location of the user smart device.

When the smartphone is located on the map within the signal range of the flying beacon, the applications installed on each smartphone 111 can provide the user information providing service and the location based service on the existing map information such as 111.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing logic of a beacon positioned in the air as a Logic of Beacon In the Air.

When a beacon is located in a different location, such as 201 or 202, by a drones, a star or a balloon, the ground user's smartphone behaves like 204,205,208,209 through the built-in Bluetooth chip and application, do.

A beacon floating in the air continuously broadcasts a Bluetooth signal. When the smart device is located within the range, it receives information such as Txpower, Major, Minor, Mac Address, etc. 204. It is calculated as a unique position value of the beacon, This is matched with the map of the GPS through the GPS module built in the existing smartphone and serves to correct the position value. The corrected position data is sent to the Contents Management Server, which goes through the Internet. In this way, the corrected position value sent to the server gets the message indentity of that position, which has a unique message ID value for each user. The unique message ID is matched to each smartphone user ID, and a specific unique message can be provided to a specific user at a specific location along the matching ID road. In other words, as in 201, this message becomes a location-based service of the user and a specific information providing service that can be received only at the specific location.

3 is a data flow diagram of a flying beacon as a Data Flow for Flying Beacon.

The beacon that floats in the air, such as drones, balloons and kites, continuously broadcasts bluetooth signals at regular intervals, such as 301, and the signals that are broadcast are the GPS module, the Bluetooth module and the software The application is sorting by definition information, and 306 is a figure separated part of the smart device which controls the hardware for the beacon floating in the air separately. That is, the AP manager 306 physically controls the activation and inactivity of the beacon floating in the air in the smart device, and the battery state, and after the position and status values are corrected, Is a module that repeats the process of turning on and off, which is controlled by communication with the server, which can be managed using the Internet network. Again, the Bluetooth signal coming into the user's smartphone is divided into 304 location service modules and 305 information service modules, which can be managed through 310 integrated management systems.

307 Contents Management Server DB stores necessary information data in a specific location, and it moves along the matching value road through the flag value of 308. 309 is a module of the user software that manages 306 AP Manager, And is configured to move in conjunction with the mode. On the upper right, 310 is a figure showing the internal processing procedure of 310 on the left as a sequence. Based on the map data firstly acquired from the GPS and the map data of the flying beacon used for the correction through the second AP Manager, To map the location on the map of the user. The mapped location value is sourced through the information data of the specific location set in the manager mode of 312, the location data and the parameter key for sorting it, and the thus-inquired data is transmitted through the integrated message management system The information DB, the information DB for each user, and the identity of each user are converted into Flag values, and the values are returned as 308 according to the respective users through the location of the GPS position, the fly beacon position, the message ID and the user ID as shown in 317 Loses. The values thus returned can provide location and information services to users within a range of specific flying beacons located within a specific location.

FIG. 4 shows an operating structure of an Flying Beacon, that is, a flying beacon. In FIG. 4, when one flying beacon has four different positions, such as 400, 401, 402 and 403, changes in values of x1, y1 and z1 are shown in parallel.

That is, when 400 flying beacons are in Positioin1, x1, y1, and z1 operate nearest to User Position1. However, as shown in 401, when the flying beacon is in Position2, x1, y1, and z1 are the same, but the closest match to User Position2. That is, the coordinate value of the flying beacon has a position value of three dimensions in proportion to the user position. In other words, the GPS takes the position value on the map through the absolute position of the flying beacon and the user smartphone, and the flying beacon and the user smart phone take each other's three-dimensional position value based on the distance between them. This means that the absolute value of the location value of the flying beacon captured by the GPS only matches when the absolute value of the user smartphone comes in.

By doing so, the location of the user's smartphone can be located on the map within the range of the flying beacon via the flying beacon. In this way, a user smartphone with a specific location on the Flying Beacon map can provide location based service and information providing service to users through 410 integrated management system, and its accuracy can be less than 1M.

In other words, instead of simply measuring the location of the user smartphone and the person on the ground as the location value of the flying beacon floating in the air, when the flying beacon and the user smartphone are included in the intersection of the range of the GPS, Flying beacons are mapped in the range and the response of the user smartphone is corrected in the range again. Therefore, GPS, flying beacon and user smart phone are triangularly formed to extract the closest mathematical value . This is mathematically equivalent to the theory that the equilateral triangle lies at the center of the intersection of vertically descending lines from any vertex. That is, the line starting from three different points represents the size of the map, and the intersection point represents the location of the user's smartphone. Once again, the vertices of the world of the equilateral triangle are respectively the GPS position value, the flying beacon position value, And the position value of a true user smartphone is the intersection point of three vertexes. This is because each value is an intersection.

5 is a service flow diagram of a service flow of a flying beacon, that is, a flying beacon.

The Bluetooth signal from the beacon located in the air such as 501 is periodically broadcast continuously. Such a broadcast signal is firstly assigned a position value of the GPS as in 502. The location value thus identified identifies whether the location of the user's smartphone is within the range of the flying beacon through Inspection. The user smart phone position thus identified is identified by the location value of the GPS position value and the flying beacon, and the information based on the location is specified in a state where the location is specified, .

503 is a contents management server that provides the information providing service. Each message ID is verified by Map pairring, and the verified message is verified once again by the user who is authenticated and the user . All of these processes are controlled by the Flag value. Flag Result and Flag Transfer of 505 indicate the process in which such Flag values are authenticated and exchanged. The thus-verified message allows the user's smartphone to receive information and location service corresponding to the location as in 506. [

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a Service Diagram os Flying Beacon, that is, a service configuration diagram of a flying beacon.

When a user of a smartphone of 601 enters position1 located within the signal range of the flying beacon, the user can receive the location based information service within the range. If the user's position moves to Position2, the user's position will also be located in Position2 and be included within the range of Position2 of the flying beacon. In this way, even if the user goes to Position3 or Position4, if it is always within the flying beacon floating in the air, the primary mapping is done through GPS and the signal range is converted to map by secondary flying beacon Loses. The converted area of the map is the same as that existing in the map of the specific space by the user. The beacon located at a specific place in the specific indoor space is utilized to identify the location of the user smart phone located therein, To provide the same service. If the user enters into the room disappearing within the GPS range, it can be replaced with a case where the flying beacon is floated indoors after mapping the first map to the final GPS value. That is, even if the user enters the room from outside the room as if the user is located by mapping an area receiving a signal of beacons floating in the air outdoors to a map, the last GPS value is used as a primary value, If the flying beacon is entered into the room, the room can also be converted into a flying beacon map.

In other words, a beacon which is fixed and located in a specific space and is used only as an identification value of a specific fixed access point is moved in the air, and the area within the reach range of the frequency is converted into a map, Providing location-based services to users is at the heart of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention will be described in detail. The present invention is not limited to a location providing service in which a beacon is installed at a fixed position in a specific space and a fixed value is obtained, By using a device that can be located in the same air, the beacon is kept in the air or moved, and the area where the signal is reached is firstly GPS-mapped, and the flying beacon, . The space thus mapped forms the vertex intersection of the right triangle by using the user's smartphone as the third access point again. The intersection points on the map of the formed space are obtained through an application installed in the user smart phone, and the location becomes the point where the user smart phone is located in the first specific space.

The user smartphone also functions as a hardware management function of the access point of the flying beacon. The process is activated when the user 's location is within the frequency range of the flying beacon. After a certain time, the data is stored in the DB, The smartphone again works as a pure application user mode.

What is necessary for practical application of the present invention is that the detailed inventive process is software-structured, and then the beacon is hung on a drone, a star or a balloon in order to place it in the air. That is, a location service using a conventional beacon simply installs a beacon in a specific space, maps a map of the space to beacon signal strength information, and provides a location service to a user's smartphone entering the space , And the flying beacon can serve as a location area service while moving a plurality of areas with a single beacon.

In other words, the flying beacon does not provide a fixed access point to the space, but it converts the space of the frequency domain into the area capable of providing one location service, and thus the range of the location-based service To an infinite space.

As described above, the main feature of the present invention is to place beacons in a specific space and in the air, convert all the areas where frequencies reach through the beacons into maps, and provide location services for all persons and objects within the frequency range It is also meaningful that the moving beacon in the air can change the infinite space into the area that can provide the location service.

AP: Access Point

Claims

Broadcasting a Bluetooth signal periodically by a flying beacon device floating in the air;
Receiving a Bluetooth signal from the flying beacon device after a smart device installed with an application enters a broadcast reach range of the Bluetooth signal of the flying beacon device;
Comparing the GPS signal embedded in the smart device with the Bluetooth signal to calculate a first position value for the flying beacon device; And
The smart device corrects the first position value using the characteristic information of the Bluetooth signal, and calculates the corrected position value as a second position value;
Based location service using a flying beacon device.

The method according to claim 1,
The smart device determines whether to operate only in the user mode or in the AP manager parallel mode in parallel with the AP manager and the user device depending on whether the correction value between the primary position value and the secondary position value exceeds the error range Determining;
Further comprising the steps of: receiving a first beacon signal and a second beacon signal;

The method according to claim 1,
The smart device transmitting the secondary position value to a content management server;
The smart device receiving a message ID for the secondary position value;
The smart device allocating the message ID as a unique ID for the user; And
The smart device communicating with the content management server using the message ID, providing a location based service and an information providing service corresponding to the secondary location value to the user using the unique ID;
Further comprising the steps of: receiving a first beacon signal and a second beacon signal;

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the smart device calculating the primary position value comprises:
Calculating a first position value based on a map including a range of the flying beacon device when the flying beacon device and the smart device are included in an intersection within a specified range in the GPS map built in the smart device,
Wherein the step of the smart device calculating the corrected position value as the secondary position value
Correcting a response characteristic between the smart device and the flying beacon device in the range of the map calculated as the primary position value to thereby generate 3D relative position information between the flying beacon device and the smart device in the GPS map A location based service method utilizing a flying beacon device.

The method according to claim 1,
The content management server locating or moving the flying beacon device in a specific space and in the air;
Converting the area of the flying beacon device from the flying beacon device to a map by communicating with the smart device in an area where the Bluetooth signal arrives from the flying beacon device; And
Providing a location-based service and an information providing service corresponding to a specific location with respect to another object entering into the area converted into the map;
Based location service using a flying beacon device.

Broadcasting a Bluetooth signal periodically by a flying beacon device floating in the air;
Receiving a Bluetooth signal from the flying beacon device after a smart device installed with an application enters a broadcast reach range of the Bluetooth signal of the flying beacon device;
Performing first position mapping using a GPS map after the smart device enters the broadcast reach range of the flying beacon device;
Performing a secondary position mapping of the smart device based on the Bluetooth signal received from the flying beacon device; And
Executing a location based service for the smart device and an information providing service based on the secondary location mapping by the secondary location mapping to the smart device;
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The step of performing the primary position mapping
When the user of the smart device enters the range where the GPS signal does not reach, the primary position mapping is performed with the finally received GPS value,
The step of performing the secondary position mapping
The flying beacon device moves into a space communicable with the smart device, thereby performing the secondary position mapping based on the primary position mapping, thereby providing the information providing service for the location based service and the secondary position mapping A location based service method utilizing a flying beacon device that extends the area.

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