In a bid to improve location-based services, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is adding a new direction-finding feature to the version 5.1, combining its existing object-tracking technology with radio direction to enable tracking a device to centimetre-level location accuracy.
By including the new direction-finding feature, Bluetooth proximity solutions could add support for device direction capability, the Bluetooth SIG wrote in a blog post on Monday.
Bluetooth-enabled proximity solutions and positioning systems use the wireless technology to determine the physical location of devices with real-time locating systems (RTLS) and fuel item finding solutions like personal property tags as well as point-of-interest (PoI) information solutions.
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