Nordic Chipsets can support Indoor Location Tracking feature?

[Hemamali]

Hi Nordic Team, Can you please share any information regarding Indoor Location Tracking feature/application that nRF52840 can support? does this have AoA/AoD? and can this provide any kind of physical layer time-stamping for ToF/TDoA algorithms? What's the best location accuracy that can be achieved using this silicon? If i want to develop nRF52840 based Indoor Location Tracking application what kind of support i can get from you? What's the preferred module platform? does Nordic supports API for location developers? what's the best LOS & NLOS range one can get using this SoC? Kindly share this information

THanks & Best Regards, Hemamali

[Hemamali]

thanks for your clarification! do you know what's the practical LOS/NLOS range can be achieved using latest Nordic BT5.0 solution? any real deployments based out of BT5.0 happened till now? if yes, what are the challenges seen with Sw timer/RSSI based schemes?

[endnode]

Well that's how these solutions work today: install at least one "base" station to every room or every 10m grid on corridors and bigger rooms. If these stations cost $50 it could be OK, if they cost $500 it's a problem, ideally they should be $5 and that's where all people are going (with beacons being in sub $5 range and observers/network nodes being sub $25). However it will take some more time and any feature like AoA or ToF pushes the price by one level up (at least today) so not helping much...