Device‐Free Detection of Pedestrian and Movement Direction Using Bluetooth Direction Finding Function

From Bluetooth 5.1, a direction finding function has been added that allows the receiver to measure the angle of arrival (AoA) of the wireless signal from the sender. In this letter, we propose a method for detecting pedestrians and their movement direction passing between Bluetooth devices equipped with direction finding functions. As a result of the evaluation, pedestrians could be detected with higher accuracy (F‐score 0.929) by combining received signal strength indicator and AoA than when using each alone. In addition, the accuracy rate for estimating the movement direction using AoA was 0.704. © 2024 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan and Wiley Periodicals LLC.