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by krembo 4945 days ago
Since each sticker is a transmitter and a receiver, isn't it possible to mount 3 stickers with known places around your house like GPS sattelites, which will calculate the cat's sticker (for example) distance from each of them and tell the exact location?
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Getting an exact location would be very tricky as the received signal strength can be affected by so many things (Thick walls, reflections, interference...).

I'd imagine you could get a rough location, but you'd need to go through some kind of calibration process first that involved going into different rooms/zones and telling the software where you were.

You might need extra reference sensors too. Ones that are in known locations that the system can use to scale the signal strength readings. That might help to combat some of the issues I mentioned above.