[57north-discuss] Locating Radio Beacons

[Martin Evans]

It's really hard to triangulate using iBeacons as the signal can vary quite a lot. I've done some work with an Arduino and a BLE Mini as a central device and am able to connect and read the rssi values from BLE devices.

Martin


On 22 May 2014, at 14:08, Marcel H. <maco at blava.net> wrote:

> Although a Edinburgh's Hacklab member and not a 57North member, I am
> currently very much looking into iBeacons / LibreBeacon.org to do
> exactly the same thing.
> 
> Marcel
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> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:
>> Dave,
>> 
>> I have someone in the lab who wants to look at locating radio beacons
>> through triangulation. This will possibly have mesh aspects to it where the
>> beacons themselves are also trying to place the beacons around them and
>> communicate back to a base station.
>> 
>> I imagine you will have helpful knowledge here. Is this something you'd be
>> interested in?
>> 
>> The guy's name is Kola and he is subscribed to the 57north-discuss list.
>> 
>> Iain.
>> 
>> P.S. If anyone else on the list may have useful knowledge, you should also
>> chime in.
>> 
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