Beacon + Raspberry proyect

Indoor Location
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Hi,

I’m trying to make an IoT proyect that can locate any device in a specific place. For example, locate the place of my cellphone using 3 beacons. I know this is possible, but the problem is that I want to use a Raspberry as a gateway to a server . I want to get the RSSI of the beacon with the cellphone and I want to access to this value with my raspberry so then the Rpi make an algorithm to detect or locate the device. Hope you can help. Thanks.

Regards,
Marcelo

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I’ve seen something like this before, so it’s definitely doable (:

Here’s my personal favorite Linux library for detecting beacons:

It’ll allow you to discover all beacons in range and read their RSSI, and you can take it from there to try to do triangulation. (Fair warning though, triangulation with Bluetooth/2.4 GHz is hard, the RSSI jumps around quite a bit due to environmental factors.)