{"id":8026,"date":"2022-10-24T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8026"},"modified":"2022-10-24T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T08:46:58","slug":"indoor-positioning-using-ibeacon-and-esp32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/indoor-positioning-using-ibeacon-and-esp32\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Positioning Using iBeacon and ESP32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bluetooth beacons advertising iBeacon can be used to perform indoor locating using trilateration. Trilateration is where three receivers are used to measure signal strength (RSSI) to calculate the position.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It’s possible to use ESP32 single board computers as Bluetooth receivers. The GitHub project iBeacon-indoor-positioning-demo<\/a> has an example open source implementation. There’s also an accompanying blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The implementation uses MQTT to send the data to a React app on a server where it’s displayed on a floorplan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In practice, you might want to consider creating a more robust solution that uses Bluetooth gateways<\/a> rather than ESP32 devices. There’s also the Bluetooth AoA Direction Finding<\/a> standard that’s more accurate than using RSSI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bluetooth beacons advertising iBeacon can be used to perform indoor locating using trilateration. Trilateration is where three receivers are used to measure signal strength (RSSI) to calculate the position. It’s possible to use ESP32 single board computers as Bluetooth receivers. The GitHub project iBeacon-indoor-positioning-demo has an example open source implementation. There’s also an accompanying blog … Continue reading “Indoor Positioning Using iBeacon and ESP32”<\/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":[2,31,32,293],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026"}],"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=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}