Was this indoor or outdoor? On 10/7/2019 10:57 AM, Denny Esterline wrote: > A couple years ago I played with a the RSSI (received signal strength > indicator) data from the ESP8266 over WiFi. > At that time I was looking for a gross distance indicator (below 10 feet, > over 30 feet) and I come to the conclusion that > I couldn't trust it. For my application there were far too many external > factors that would effect the data. > > -Denny > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 7:43 AM Neil wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How realistic would it be to locate an object on a field using signal >> strength? I'm thinking the (moving) object would transmit (LoRa?) and >> there would be receivers around the field. >> At first pass, I'm thinking the transmitter would send numbers (changes >> each on each transmission), and the receivers can record the signal >> strengths when they receive each value, then correlate those values to >> get a location. >> I'm just not sure how realistic it would be to get the position of the >> object to within say a few feet. >> No, GPS is not a workable option for this. >> >> Cheers, >> -Neil. >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .