Get Bluetooth Device Distance Using BleuIO

2021-07-16 | By Sheikh Shuhad

License: GNU Lesser General Public License

Requirments

• You need to have a BLE USB dongle BleuIO https://www.bleuio.com/
• To run the script, you need a web application bundler. You can use parceljs. https://parceljs.org/getting_started.html

Instructions

git clone https://github.com/smart-sensor-devices-ab/ble_distance_measure.git

Go inside the folder type in terminal

parcel index.html

The script will scan for five seconds for nearby devices. You can update the value based on your requirements.

You can also run this script from online at https://smart-sensor-devices-ab.github.io/ble_distance_measure/dist/

**Make sure your BleuIO dongle is connected

Read more about how to calculate the distance https://iotandelectronics.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/how-to-calculate-distance-from-the-rssi-value-of-the-ble-beacon/