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by rsaxvc 949 days ago
If you want to get really spicy, you can use two antennas and an SDR to compute angle of arrival using nothing but a BLE advertisement's data . This is different from BLE AoA as it doesn't require a cooperative transmitter.
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If you want to get really, really spicy, use three devices/antennas and you can roughly track in three-dimensional space.
Wouldn’t three dimensional tracking need four antennas?
Three appropriately spaced antennas will give you azimuth and elevation of a ray to the transmitter, but not distance.

But using two of the above in different, known locations would allow you to compute the intersection to a 3D location.

there are wifi setups that allow you to do this already.
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