{"id":1507,"date":"2017-03-15T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T11:12:29","slug":"beacon-rtls-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-rtls-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon RTLS Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steffen von B\u00fcnau of Kontakt.io has an interesting article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/jobs-done-accuracy-real-time-location-systems-steffen-von-b%C3%BCnau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Jobs to be done &#8211; Accuracy in Real Time Location Systems&#8221;<\/a>. He asks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Who will use the information and what is to be achieved with it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He questions whether organisations need room level accuracy or location within a room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Steffan says, trilateration can be used for positioning within a room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, determining accurate location within a room is much harder and more expensive to achieve and needs fingerprinting. Fingerprinting involves going over the target area to sample beacon signal strengths that&#8217;s time consuming. It&#8217;s also the case that the more you tune these things, the easier it is that they can go out of tune when the environment changes. New or changed items in a room can easily change signal strength readings&nbsp;and cause the need for re-fingerprinting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Steffen says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Accuracy is an expensive vanity metric unless it is necessary to get the job done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconForRTLS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beacons for&nbsp;RTLS<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconrtls.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BeaconRTLS platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/bluetoothlocationengine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BluetoothLocationEngine\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steffen von B\u00fcnau of Kontakt.io has an interesting article on &#8220;Jobs to be done &#8211; Accuracy in Real Time Location Systems&#8221;. He asks: Who will use the information and what is to be achieved with it? He questions whether organisations need room level accuracy or location within a room. As Steffan says, trilateration can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-rtls-accuracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacon RTLS Accuracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31,130,293],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}