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

[cocoa]

9solutions seems to uses nodes and not beacons. Each node acts as a central and peripheral. It searches for people and assets in its range and transmits the positions and others informations received from ble/nfc tags. A node seems to be a bluetooth low energy mesh node (or self organizing network) using a protocol like CSRMesh .

With a nRF51822 + S130 softdevice and IoT Sdk you should be able to build something similar to 9solutions node and tags except for NFC functionalities.

-c

[cocoa]

@NK, If the patent is about tracking object trough a mesh network ... no one can patent it because there is prior art and it's a well known technology .

Only an example,

See ALHMIEDAT, T.A. and YANG, S.H., 2008. A ZigBee-based mobile tracking system through wireless sensor networks. International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems, 1 (1), pp.63-70.

or, BluEyes
Bluetooth Localization and Tracking : Ei Darli Aung Jonathan Yang Dae-Ki Cho
 Mario Gerla University
 of
 California, 
Los
Angeles

Type in google for "use bluetooh node to track mobile sensor " and you will discover that you can freely implement your idea.

If you have an idea don't stop, check it, verify it , evolve it, ask around e go on.

-c