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Distance from bluetooth station.


  • Subject: Distance from bluetooth station.
  • From: Stuart Grimshaw <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:23:20 +0100

Has anyone got any ideas/experience on using Bluetooth to detect the
distance from a bluetooth base station?

I want to make a low cost tracking system, but all I'm interested in
is the distance travelled rather than the actual location. I reckon if
I can poll a bluetooth device and get 2 distances, I should be able to
use simple trigonometry to find the distance travelled. (Andy
mentioned XBee on IRC as a cheaper alternative, but I guess that has
the same problem, turning signal strength into distance.)

-S

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