Re:iBeacon Pioneers Estimote (YC S13) Raise $3.1M Seed Round
by andrewtbham on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @07:03PM
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I got some estimotes and my experience is that the signal strength doesn't change consistently based on the distance. I was planning to do a program using trilateration... but I don't think it would work.
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Re:iBeacon Pioneers Estimote (YC S13) Raise $3.1M Seed Round
by maffydub on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:22AM
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My experience was that the RSSI does change reasonably consistently, but that there's quite a lot of noise (so you need to smooth it appropriately). I also get the impression that it's affected by orientation of the phone relative to the beacon, and also by anything blocking line-of-sight (including humans). Mounting the beacons high up could reduce the effect of this last point.