RTLS - People and asset tracking

[Ricardo]

Hi,

I'm really new here, sorry if it is a beginner question. Our company wants to start developing a RTLS (Real Time Location System) to track mainly person (patients within a hospital) and assets. Is it possible to use Nordic technologies to deploy a trust system? It would use beacons (localization), power amplifiers, and a tag (nRF51 dongle?). Can be the localization made with good accuracy?

Am I in the right track here or completely wrong?

Any advise is very well welcome.

Kind regards

[Ricardo]

Hi Marc, thanks for the reply. I'm thinking about BLE, no need of real triangulation.

I want to make a solution like this: www.9solutions.com/.../hospital-benefits

It has a node on each room (if I want that kind of accuracy) and some other bluetooth gears.

Can I achieve that with the BLE "beacons"?

Ricardo

[Marc Nicholas]

Conceptually, you'd be able to know if the 'tag' was within range of each base station....yes. But you wouldn't necessarily know it was in a particular room.

Apple's iBeacon implementation is obviously one of the better known 'standards' (not sure I'd really call it that)....and bear in mind that you get only three discrete levels of proximity (immediate, near, far). This is after you've calibrated your device's transmit power @ 1m, too.

cocoa's response below is accurate and valid too.

-m