{"id":4319,"date":"2019-10-28T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:24:37","slug":"using-bluetooth-and-wifi-rssi-for-locating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-bluetooth-and-wifi-rssi-for-locating\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Bluetooth and WiFi RSSI for Locating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a recent paper by Hongji Cao,Yunjia Wang,Jingxue Bi and Hongxia Qi of China University of Mining and Technology on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"An Adaptive Bluetooth\/Wi-Fi Fingerprint Positioning Method based on Gaussian Process Regression and Relative Distance (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/19\/12\/2784\/htm\" target=\"_blank\">An Adaptive Bluetooth\/Wi-Fi Fingerprint Positioning Method based on Gaussian Process Regression and Relative Distance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper looks into how to combine both Bluetooth fingerprint positioning (BFP) and Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning (WFP) to provide for an adaptive Bluetooth\/Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning system based on Gaussian process regression (GPR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sensors-19-02784-g002-1024x959.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sensors-19-02784-g002-1024x959.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sensors-19-02784-g002-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sensors-19-02784-g002-768x719.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sensors-19-02784-g002-1200x1124.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The adapative feature is particularly useful because fingerprint acquisition requires a great deal of effort and requires subsequent update and maintenance.This new method provides a better positioning than Bluetooth and Wi-Fi positioning alone but at the cost of extra computation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconForRTLS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Using Beacons, iBeacons for Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS) (opens in a new tab)\">Using Beacons, iBeacons for Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a recent paper by Hongji Cao,Yunjia Wang,Jingxue Bi and Hongxia Qi of China University of Mining and Technology on An Adaptive Bluetooth\/Wi-Fi Fingerprint Positioning Method based on Gaussian Process Regression and Relative Distance. The paper looks into how to combine both Bluetooth fingerprint positioning (BFP) and Wi-Fi fingerprint positioning (WFP) to provide for an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-bluetooth-and-wifi-rssi-for-locating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Bluetooth and WiFi RSSI for Locating&#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":[32,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319"}],"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=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}