Enhancing Mountain Safety: NFC Beacon Technology Implementation

Modern people mainly use their leisure time for socializing with family acquaintances, health care, interpersonal relationships, and the pleasure of self-satisfaction.According to the 2022 National Leisure Activity Survey, leisure time has been increasing since 2016, and hiking is a leisure activity that many people participate in, ranking third in the main activities of the club and ninth in the most satisfactory leisure activities.In addition, according to the 2021 Disaster Yearbook, the number of accidents in 21 is 6,496, the highest number of accidents in the type of accident managed by local governments.The information on hiking safety accidents in the National Disaster Safety Portal only informs emergency measures and behavioral tips such as the size, speed, and climbing time when hiking but provides little information on accident prevention or accident countermeasures.Accordingly, various studies using IT technology, such as location-based services using GPS (GPS: Global Positioning System), beacons, and drones, have been proposed to prevent accidents and rapid action when they occur.Safety systems using IT technology prevent accidents by notifying users by marking areas with many accidents and quickly identifying the accident occurrence and occurrence location in the event of an accident.Safety systems for accident prevention and action are important to locate, and GPS may be disconnected or difficult find depending on the terrain accurately.On the other hand, beacons have the advantage of being able to locate them accurately.In particular, beacons have the advantage of low power consumption and no limit on the number of connectable devices based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).Against the backdrop, numerous studies have suggested utilizing IT technologies to prevent mountain climbing accidents and quickly respond to them.This study aims to design a mountain safety system that uses beacons and short-range communication technology and implement it as a smartphone application to prevent climbing accidents while providing quick actions should accidents occur.The mountain safety system implemented in this paper provides information on danger zones and mountain climbing tips to prevent accidents and sends location information immediately when an accident happens.It is expected that safe leisure activities will be helpful to modern people by using this paper's convenient and highly usable safety system.Future research will be conducted to build a safety system by integrating various IT technologies with current advantages and disadvantages.This will help build safety systems in various fields not limited to mountain safety systems.