A new Bluetooth antenna board from u‑blox for indoor positioning

When you are walking in a warehouse, a mall, or any such a large indoor building, position finding helps to quickly reaching the point you're looking for. Generally satellite GPS doesn't work that well in indoor positioning. To accurately provide position data a new Bluetooth standards is updated to assist direction finding and position finding through Bluetooth beacons. The Bluetooth-based location service can deliver Centimeter level accuracy. Wireless chipset module maker u‑blox has made available u‑blox ANT-B10 antenna board for Bluetooth direction finding and indoor positioning applications. This wireless hardware module can be integrated into position-data-requiring equipments and devices allowing them to provide high precision indoor positioning. Bluetooth indoor positioning uses the angle of arrival (AoA) of a Bluetooth direction finding signal emitted by a mobile tag at several fixed anchor points to calculate the tag’s location in real-time with sub-meter accuracy. The technology, which benefits from Bluetooth’s vast ecosystem and interoperability across platforms, is gaining traction due to its low cost, high accuracy, and relative ease of installation and maintenance, says U-blox in its release. ANT-B10 is a self-contained Bluetooth low energy antenna board having eight individual patch antennas and is built around a u‑blox NINA-B411 Bluetooth 5.1 module....