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]

Some of these systems I've linked worked with regular BLE beacons and observers are just network connected BLE scanners (in simplified way) so you can imagine how hard/easy and expensive/cheap is to do PCB with nRF5x for BLE and ESP32 or similar for WiFi and write the code for it... the question remains how precise you can get with such system (indeed things like Quupa ~$500 devices using arrays and chips and antennas with AoA can get there but that's the price you are talking about and no one wants to pay;).