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Episode 198: Location location location, revisited

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Cell Phone Towers and Wi-Fi

Cell phone towers still intend to move so they would be a good source but I guess they're more expensive battery wise is that why? Well you might say they shouldn't move but they are identified by a unique number and sometimes they scramble those numbers. So usually for things like in fact yeah I could talk more about this later in fact even jump in at the end of this. In some senses we think of Wi-Fi based on signal strengths being the first generation of indoor location for Wi-Fi okay and it wasn't really designed alright it was just there. There is a second generation of positioning which is based on time of flight and this was standardized by the IEEE as a designed protocol in

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