Are bluetooth beacons still the best way to do location tracking in a building?

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  • cat-localizer

    Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning

  • The first time I read the post I also assumed the phones are the beacons and was about to suggest the cat-localizer, but actually OP is asking for the phones doing the tracking.

  • room-assistant

    Presence tracking and more for automation on the room-level

  • Check out Room Assistant. I have 9 RaspberryPi Zeros set up around my house and these do a great job tracking which rooms our cats are in, provided that we put a tiny BLE dongle on their collar.

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