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]

To BT5.0 and sudden improved NOLS: my believe is that inside complex topologies like office space the impact of long-range modulated air-speeds will be fairly minimal, but maybe I'm wrong. Also claim about AoA/AoD being achievable with "minimal HW deployment" I'm very skeptical because basically none of cheap low power BLE chipset have this today and just to get modulated air-speed it takes Nordic (one of the market leaders) up to 12 months to deliver production chip since specification announcement (note that nRF52840 is just in engineering samples' stage and it will hopefully available for mass market in the end of this year!). Anyway I'm big fan of these radio applications so I hope I will be wrong and all big hopes will come true.