Channel Sounding Over Bluetooth Leads to High-Accuracy Secure Positioning
CEVA recently announced support for channel sounding to its RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP portfolio, which provides high-accuracy secure positioning in the automotive, industrial, and IoT markets. Channel sounding (previously referred to as high accuracy distance measurement, or HADM) is an improvement on traditional Bluetooth distance and position measurement techniques, with additional security and accuracy.
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Thanks to its low-power profile and size, Bluetooth-based channel sounding is well-suited for applications such as automotive digital keys and general systems like industrial/warehouse/consumer asset tracking and real-time sport/fitness tracking. Bluetooth-based positioning is experiencing a new wave of growth in the retail location services segment, too, especially when coupled with the increasingly popular Bluetooth-based electronic shelf label (ESL) systems.
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An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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