WO2016101418A1

WO2016101418A1 - Wireless navigation system, method and computer storage medium

Info

Publication number: WO2016101418A1
Application number: PCT/CN2015/074337
Authority: WO
Inventors: 邵平
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2014-12-23
Filing date: 2015-03-16
Publication date: 2016-06-30
Also published as: CN105792119A

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention are a wireless navigation system, method and computer storage medium, the method comprising: a mobile terminal initiates a connection request to a wireless access point; the wireless access point receives the connection request of the mobile terminal, after successfully accessing the mobile terminal, reports an accessing event to the central server; the central server receives the accessing event reported by the wireless access point, pushing a target region layout drawing to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point; the wireless terminal receives and displays the target region layout drawing pushed by a central server. The present invention applies WiFi technology to a navigation control system, facilitating users to check the target region layout via the mobile terminal without any customizations, providing an accurate navigation service to the user, and largely improving user experience without increasing user cost.

Description

Wireless navigation system, method and computer storage medium

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a wireless navigation system, method, and computer storage medium.

Background technique

Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) is a wireless local area network (WLAN) technology that uses IEEE's 802.11 protocol. Wi-Fi is a wireless network consisting of an Access Point (AP) and a wireless network card. The structure is simple, the cost of installation is The complexity of the program is much lower than that of a traditional wired network. At present, with the popularity of smart phones, WiFi has become one of the standard configurations of smart phones. Since each wireless network adapter card has a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address, each wireless access point can be uniquely identified based on the MAC address.

In large shopping malls, due to the complicated distribution of merchants and commodities, consumers often need to search for related products for a long time. If they can provide consumers with shopping services in the navigation mode of the shopping mall, the shopping experience of consumers will be greatly enhanced. Common positioning methods such as GPS positioning are difficult to accurately locate due to indoor signal shielding problems, and shopping navigation is not available.

Summary of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention contemplate a wireless navigation system, method, and computer storage medium that at least partially solve the problem of indoor navigation difficulties caused by indoor GPS positioning signals being shielded.

A first aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a wireless navigation system, including: a central server, a plurality of mobile terminals, and a plurality of wireless access points disposed in a target area according to a preset rule;

The mobile terminal is configured to initiate a connection request to the wireless access point, and after receiving the connection, receive and display a target area layout map pushed by the central server;

The wireless access point is configured to receive a connection request of the mobile terminal, and report the access event to the central server after successfully accessing the mobile terminal;

The central server is configured to receive an access event reported by the wireless access point, and push the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point.

Optionally, in the system of the present invention, the central server is further configured to mark the mobile terminal in the target area layout diagram when pushing a target area layout map to a mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point. current position.

Optionally, in the system of the present invention, the central server is configured to set the current location of the wireless access point of the access event to the current location of the mobile terminal, and mark the location in the target area layout diagram. .

Optionally, in the system of the present invention, the central server is configured to push the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point by using the preset navigation application as a carrier.

Optionally, in the system of the present invention, the mobile terminal is further configured to initiate a target object query request by using a query interface provided by the navigation application;

The central server is further configured to extract a target object query request received by the navigation application, obtain the location information of the requested target object, and then push the navigation application to the navigation application on the mobile terminal side to use the navigation application as a carrier. In the target area layout diagram, the location information of the requested target object is marked and displayed.

Optionally, in the system of the present invention, the central server is further configured to: after acquiring location information of the requested target object, determine a current location of the mobile terminal, and calculate a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, And pushing the route to the navigation application corresponding to the mobile terminal side to display the route in the target area layout map with the navigation application as a carrier.

Optionally, in the system of the present invention, the service set identifiers SSID and the encryption mode of the wireless access points are the same; and the two adjacent wireless access point signal ranges in the wireless access points. There is overlap.

A second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a wireless navigation method, where the method is applied to a system including a central server, a plurality of mobile terminals, and a plurality of wireless access points arranged in a target area according to a preset rule, Methods include:

The mobile terminal initiates a connection request to the wireless access point;

Receiving, by the wireless access point, the connection request of the mobile terminal, after successfully accessing the mobile terminal, reporting an access event to the central server;

Receiving, by the central server, an access event reported by the wireless access point, and pushing a target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point;

The mobile terminal receives and displays the target area layout map pushed by the central server.

Optionally, in the method of the present invention, when the central server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point, the current location of the mobile terminal is also marked in the target area layout map.

Optionally, in the method of the present invention, the central server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point by using the preset navigation application as a carrier.

Optionally, the method of the present invention further includes:

The mobile terminal initiates a target object query request by using a query interface provided by the navigation application;

The central server extracts the target object query request received by the navigation application, obtains the location information of the requested target object, and then pushes the navigation application to the navigation application on the mobile terminal side to layout the target area in the navigation application as a carrier. The position information of the requested target object is displayed in the figure.

Optionally, the method of the present invention further includes:

After the central server acquires the location information of the requested target object, determine the mobile terminal as The front position, after calculating the route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, pushes the navigation application to the corresponding mobile terminal side to display the route in the target area layout map with the navigation application as the carrier.

A third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a wireless navigation method, where the method includes:

Receiving an access event reported by the wireless access point after successfully accessing the mobile terminal;

After receiving the access event, pushing a target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point;

The target area layout map is used for display and navigation by the mobile terminal.

Optionally,

The method further includes: before pushing the target area layout to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point:

Marking the current location of the mobile terminal in the target area layout.

Optionally,

Pushing the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point, including:

The target area layout map is pushed to the mobile terminal by using a preset navigation application as a carrier.

Optionally,

The method further includes:

Receiving, by the mobile terminal, a target object query request according to the query structure provided by the navigation application;

Obtain location information of the target object;

After obtaining the location information of the requested target object, pushing the location information to the mobile terminal,

The location information is used by the mobile terminal to display the location information of the requested target object in the target area layout.

Optionally,

The method further includes:

After obtaining the location information of the requested target object, determining the current location of the mobile terminal;

Calculating a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object;

After calculating a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, pushing the route to the navigation application corresponding to the mobile terminal side;

The route is used by the mobile terminal to display the location information of the requested target object in the target area layout.

A fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions, where the computer executable instructions are used to execute the methods of the second aspect and the third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention. At least one of them.

The WiFi technology is applied to the navigation control system according to the embodiment of the present invention, so that the user can conveniently view the layout information of the target area without any customization, and can also query the target object according to the user through the mobile terminal. Requests, providing users with accurate navigation services, greatly improving the user experience of navigation functions without increasing user costs.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a wireless navigation system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a schematic flowchart of a wireless navigation method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of another wireless navigation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

At present, the structure of the merchants and the goods in the shopping mall is complicated, and the consumer needs to spend a lot of time searching for the goods, and the shopping experience is poor. In this regard, the embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless navigation system, a method, and a computer storage medium. After the mobile terminal is connected to the wireless access point located in the target area, The mobile terminal sends the target area layout map, which can help the mobile terminal to hack the number. The embodiment of the invention applies the WiFi technology to the navigation control, so that the user can implement various navigations only by using the mobile terminal, such as shopping navigation or conference navigation. When shopping navigation, you can view the store distribution and detailed information of related products in the mall, which greatly improves the consumer's shopping experience. The shopping navigation is only an application scenario of the present invention, and is not the only application scenario. The implementation process of the present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with specific embodiments.

Embodiment 1

The embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless navigation system, as shown in FIG. 1 , including: a central server, a plurality of mobile terminals, and a plurality of wireless access points arranged in a target area according to a preset rule; wherein, the mobile terminal serves as The STA (Station) device of the WiFi network performs WiFi connection with the wireless access point. The wireless access point serves as the AP device of the WiFi network, and performs WiFi connection with the STA device, and reports the WiFi connection of the STA device to the central server. specific:

a mobile terminal, configured to initiate a connection request to the wireless access point, and after receiving the connection, receive and display a target area layout map pushed by the central server; when the application scenario of the present invention is shopping navigation, the target area layout map is The layout of the shops in the mall;

a wireless access point, configured to receive a connection request of the mobile terminal, and report an access event to the central server after successfully accessing the mobile terminal;

It can be seen that when the system is applied and shopping navigation, the user can view the layout information of the store in the mall through only one mobile terminal, and the navigation of the store with the layout information of the store can greatly enhance the shopping experience of the consumer.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal is a terminal device that can access the WiFi network, and can be, but is not limited to, a smart phone.

In the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the service set identifier SSID and the encryption side of each wireless access point The formulas are the same, so that the Wi-Fi radio of the mobile terminal can roam from one access point to another without the user's perception, thereby achieving a seamless connection between the hotspots, which is greatly convenient for the user to use.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the effective coverage of the wireless access point is not too large or too small, and the coverage is too large, resulting in waste of resources, increased cost, and too small coverage, which may cause WiFi disconnection and accurate positioning. Therefore, the wireless access point of the appropriate power can be selected according to the actual situation.

In addition, as the distance between the mobile terminal and the associated access point increases, the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) value of the associated access point will gradually decrease, according to the Wifi roaming function. When the RSSI value of the associated access point is less than a certain threshold, the mobile terminal automatically attempts to associate with other access points with stronger RSSI values. Therefore, when each wireless access point is deployed, the coverage of the adjacent two wireless access points should overlap, and the overlapping setting can avoid disconnection, which greatly improves the user experience.

In the embodiment of the present invention, before the central server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point, optionally, the current location of the mobile terminal is marked in the target area layout map.

In this embodiment, the central server, as the total server platform, should store the deployment location information of each wireless access point. At this time, the manner in which the central server acquires the current location of the mobile terminal includes: the location of the wireless access point that the central server reports the access event is the current location of the access mobile terminal.

It should be noted that the central server is a location estimation method according to the location of the wireless access point, which is a location estimation method. The present invention is not limited to the method for acquiring the current location of the mobile terminal, which is easily conceivable by those skilled in the art. The manner in which the current location of the mobile terminal can be obtained is within the scope of the protection idea of the present invention.

Embodiment 2

The embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless navigation system. The composition of the system is the same as that of the first embodiment. The implementation process is the same as that of the first embodiment. The difference is that, in this embodiment, the central The server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point by using the preset navigation application as a carrier. That is to say, the central server pushes a navigation application to the mobile terminal, through which the user can view the target area layout map.

Optionally, the navigation application described in this embodiment further provides a query interface for the user, specifically:

The mobile terminal is further configured to initiate a target object query request by using a query interface provided by the navigation application. When the application scenario of the present invention is shopping navigation, the target object may be a shop or a commodity.

The central server is further configured to extract a target object query request received by the navigation application, obtain the location information of the requested target object, and then push the navigation application to the navigation application on the mobile terminal side to target the navigation application. The location information of the requested target object is displayed in the area layout diagram. At this time, the location information that the medium server pushes may be the target object, so that after receiving the location information, the mobile terminal may perform label display in the target area layout diagram. The central server may also be configured to directly push the target area layout map marked with the target object to the mobile terminal.

That is to say, the central server is a support platform for the navigation application, and the central server can display the location information of the target object that the user queries to the user through the navigation application, thereby providing a more complete navigation service for the user.

Optionally, in this embodiment, after obtaining the location information of the requested target object, the central server determines the current location of the mobile terminal, calculates a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, and moves the route to the corresponding destination. The navigation application on the terminal side pushes to display the route in the target area layout map with the navigation application as the carrier. At this time, the central server may be configured to directly push the route to the mobile terminal, so that after receiving the location information, the mobile terminal may perform label display in the target area layout. The central server may also be configured to directly push the target area layout map marked with the route to the mobile terminal.

In order to more clearly illustrate the solution described in this embodiment, the description is now combined with a specific shopping scenario:

Suppose the user wants to find an AA store in a five-storey mall, which is located on the fourth floor of the mall. After the user enters the shopping mall, the mobile terminal can access the WiFi network, and the wireless access point receives the connection information of the mobile terminal and reports it to the central server. The central server provides the navigation application to the user, and the user inputs the AA store in the navigation application. Query, the central server queries the corresponding location information according to the AA store, and locates the current location of the user, calculates the corresponding route, and navigates the user for shopping.

In summary, the solution of the embodiment of the present invention applies the WiFi technology to the shopping mall navigation and navigation control system, so that the user can carry out the navigation of the mall smoothly and view the shopping mall without carrying any customization by carrying the mobile terminal. Store layout and product information have greatly improved the consumer shopping experience.

Embodiment 3

An embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless navigation method, where the method is applied to a system including a central server, a plurality of mobile terminals, and a plurality of wireless access points arranged in a target area according to a preset rule, as shown in FIG. The method includes the following steps:

Step S201, the mobile terminal initiates a connection request to the wireless access point.

Step S202: The wireless access point receives the connection request of the mobile terminal, and reports the access event to the central server after successfully accessing the mobile terminal.

Step S203: The central server receives an access event reported by the wireless access point, and pushes a target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point.

Optionally, in this step, when the central server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point, the current location of the mobile terminal is also marked in the target area layout map.

The manner in which the central server obtains the current location of the mobile terminal includes, but is not limited to, the location of the wireless access point that reports the access event by the central server is the current location of the access mobile terminal.

Step S204: The mobile terminal receives and displays a target area layout map pushed by the central server.

Optionally, in the method of this embodiment, the central server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point by using the preset navigation application as a carrier. That is to say, the central server pushes a navigation application to the mobile terminal, through which the user can view the layout of the target area.

Optionally, the navigation application described in this embodiment further provides a query interface for the user, and at this time:

The mobile terminal can initiate a target object query request by using a query interface provided by the navigation application;

As a background of the navigation application, the central server extracts the target object query request received by the navigation application, obtains the location information of the requested target object, and then pushes the navigation application to the navigation application on the mobile terminal side to target the navigation application. The location information of the requested target object is displayed in the area layout diagram.

Optionally, in this embodiment, after obtaining the location information of the requested target object, the central server further acquires the current location of the mobile terminal, and calculates a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, and then sends the route to the corresponding mobile terminal side. The navigation application pushes to mark the route in the target area layout map with the navigation application as the carrier.

Based on the introduction of the foregoing solution, the overall working process of the method in the embodiment of the present invention is described below, specifically: the mobile terminal is used as the STA device, and the wireless access point is used as the AP device. When the mobile terminal searches for the WiFi network, the WiFi connection is performed. Authentication authentication, after the authentication is established, the wireless access point reports the connection information to the central server, and the central server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal, so that the user can perform corresponding actions through the layout map. In addition, in this embodiment, the central server may also create a navigation application by itself or through a third party. It is pushed to the user as a carrier of the target area layout map, and the user can also perform precise navigation through the query interface provided by the navigation application, which greatly improves the user experience.

Embodiment 4:

As shown in FIG. 3, this embodiment provides a wireless navigation method, where the method includes:

Step S301: Receive an access event reported by the wireless access point after successfully accessing the mobile terminal.

Step S302: After receiving the access event, pushing a target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point;

The method described in this embodiment may be applied to the central server in the foregoing embodiment, such that the central server may be a server that stores the target area layout map, such as a storage area, a parking lot, or a conference area. Server. After the mobile terminal reaches the indoor location of the target area and accesses the wireless access point in the target area, the target area layout map is received to perform navigation.

Before the target area layout is pushed to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point, the method further includes: marking the current location of the mobile terminal in the target area layout.

The central server may determine the current location of the mobile terminal according to the location of the wireless access point currently accessed by the mobile terminal, and mark the target area layout map to help the user of the mobile terminal determine its current location. .

The step S301 may include: pushing the target area layout map to the mobile terminal by using a preset navigation application as a carrier. Synchronizing the navigation application to the mobile terminal can prevent the problem that the target area layout cannot be acquired when the mobile terminal does not have the corresponding navigation application installed.

The method further includes:

Obtain location information of the target object;

The method further includes:

In this way, the central server is not only used to provide a target area layout map to the mobile terminal, but also assists the mobile terminal in querying the target object and the line plan, and obviously can play a good navigation role.

Embodiment 5:

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium stores computer executable instructions, and the computer executable instructions are used to execute at least one of the methods described in the foregoing embodiments, specifically And/or the method described in FIG.

The computer storage medium may be a U disk, a mobile hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like, which can store program code. In some embodiments, the computer storage medium is a non-transitory storage medium.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Modifications made in accordance with the principles of the invention are understood to fall within the protection of the invention range.

Claims

A wireless navigation system includes: a central server, a plurality of mobile terminals, and a plurality of wireless access points arranged in a target area according to a preset rule;

The mobile terminal is configured to initiate a connection request to the wireless access point, and after receiving the connection, receive and display a target area layout map pushed by the central server;

The wireless access point is configured to receive a connection request of the mobile terminal, and report the access event to the central server after successfully accessing the mobile terminal;

The central server is configured to receive an access event reported by the wireless access point, and push the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point.
The system of claim 1 wherein said central server is further configured to label said mobile terminal in said target area map prior to pushing a target area map to a mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point current position.
The system of claim 2, wherein the central server is configured to locate the current location of the wireless access point of the access event as the current location of the mobile terminal, and mark the location in the target area layout map. .
The system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the central server is configured to push the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point with the preset navigation application as a carrier.
The system of claim 4 wherein

The mobile terminal is further configured to initiate a target object query request by using a query interface provided by the navigation application;

The central server is further configured to extract a target object query request received by the navigation application, obtain the location information of the requested target object, and then push the navigation application to the navigation application in the corresponding mobile terminal to use the navigation application as a carrier. In the target area layout diagram, the location information of the requested target object is marked and displayed.
The system of claim 5, wherein the central server is further configured to: after obtaining location information of the requested target object, determine a current location of the mobile terminal, and calculate a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, And pushing the route to the navigation application corresponding to the mobile terminal side to display the route in the target area layout map with the navigation application as a carrier.
The system of claim 1 wherein

The service set identifier SSID and the encryption mode of each wireless access point are the same;

Among the wireless access points, two adjacent wireless access point signal ranges overlap.
A wireless navigation method, the method is applied to a system comprising a central server, a plurality of mobile terminals, and a plurality of wireless access points arranged in a target area according to a preset rule, the method comprising:

The mobile terminal initiates a connection request to the wireless access point;

Receiving, by the wireless access point, the connection request of the mobile terminal, after successfully accessing the mobile terminal, reporting an access event to the central server;

Receiving, by the central server, an access event reported by the wireless access point, and pushing a target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point;

The mobile terminal receives and displays the target area layout map pushed by the central server.
The method of claim 8, wherein the central server also marks the current location of the mobile terminal in the target area map when the target area map is pushed to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point.
The method according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the central server pushes the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point with the preset navigation application as a carrier.
The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises:

The mobile terminal initiates a target object query by using a query interface provided by the navigation application request;

The central server extracts the target object query request received by the navigation application, obtains the location information of the requested target object, and then pushes the navigation application to the navigation application on the mobile terminal side to layout the target area in the navigation application as a carrier. The position information of the requested target object is displayed in the figure.
The method of claim 11 wherein the method further comprises:

After obtaining the location information of the requested target object, the central server determines the current location of the mobile terminal, calculates a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, and then pushes the navigation application to the corresponding mobile terminal side to navigate The route is marked in the target area layout of the application as a carrier.
A wireless navigation method, the method comprising:

Receiving an access event reported by the wireless access point after successfully accessing the mobile terminal;

After receiving the access event, pushing a target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point;

The target area layout map is used for display and navigation by the mobile terminal.
The method of claim 13 wherein

Before the target area layout is pushed to the mobile terminal that accesses the wireless access point, the method further includes:

Marking the current location of the mobile terminal in the target area layout.
The method of claim 13 wherein

Pushing the target area layout map to the mobile terminal accessing the wireless access point, including:

The target area layout map is pushed to the mobile terminal by using a preset navigation application as a carrier.
The method of claim 15 wherein

The method further includes:

Receiving the mobile terminal to send a target object query based on the query structure provided by the navigation application begging;

Obtain location information of the target object;

After obtaining the location information of the requested target object, pushing the location information to the mobile terminal,

The location information is used by the mobile terminal to display the location information of the requested target object in the target area layout.
The method of claim 16 wherein

The method further includes:

After obtaining the location information of the requested target object, determining the current location of the mobile terminal;

Calculating a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object;

After calculating a route of the current location of the mobile terminal to the location of the requested target object, pushing the route to the navigation application corresponding to the mobile terminal side;

The route is used by the mobile terminal to display the location information of the requested target object in the target area layout.
A computer storage medium having stored therein computer executable instructions for performing at least one of the methods of claims 8-17.