As you eventually may or may not discover, RSSI is almost useless as a measure of distance.
It depends on many other important factors, and most of the time there is no way to take those into account.
jremington:
As you eventually may or may not discover, RSSI is almost useless as a measure of distance.It depends on many other important factors, and most of the time there is no way to take those into account.
Well, what can I do..! I didn't choose this topic to be my research.
madAj:
Well, what can I do..! I didn't choose this topic to be my research.
Maybe the topic was chosen so that you could reach the conclusion, based on the data collected with your test equipment, that RSSI is not suitable for determining distance.
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Well, what can I do..! I didn't choose this topic to be my research.
If your instructor is not aware of the very well understood fact that RSSI is nearly useless for determining distance, it is certainly time that he or she learns about it.
A week's time is plenty to set up a simple experiment that very clearly demonstrates this. Or, you could do some research on line, where the phenomenon is well documented.
Many researchers have struggled with that idea, in the attempt to make locators using cheap radio modules. If it worked, you would have been able to buy cheap ranging or localization modules a least a decade ago.