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Totally understand about the B2B thing, Regarding BLE -- is that really a limitation though? Even if the hardware / API won't give you a good indication of sig
by sam0x17 7y ago
Totally understand about the B2B thing,
Regarding BLE -- is that really a limitation though? Even if the hardware / API won't give you a good indication of signal strength, surely there is nothing stopping you from taking a timestamp, sending a packet to the BT device, taking a second timestamp when the response arrives from the device, and using t2 - t1 to measure "strength"? There are papers on how people have been able to triangulate a physical location based on three ping times -- this seems a lot simpler as it's the 1-D version of that problem. Worst case scenario you need a nano-second precision clock, but the principle should still work.
- sam0x17 7y agoClarification: researchers have been able to triangulate a physical location based on ping times to 3 widely-spread locations.
- bradknowles 7y agoAnd you can do the same with signal strengths. Basically, anything that varies with distance can be made to work.