The Bluetooth SIG, the owner of Bluetooth standards, has a useful video introduction to Bluetooth® Location Services and High-Accuracy Direction Finding. It’s the 4th video from Embedded World 2020. Strangely, you need to view direct from the Bluetooth SIG site because this video isn’t available direct from Vimeo.
Martin Woolley, Senior Developer Relations Manager, provides a high level overview and explains how direction finding differs to positioning using RSSI signal strength. He describes how Bluetooth Angle of Arrival (AoA) and Angle of Departure (AoD) make use of multiple angles to provide accurate location.
Martin dives deeper into direction finding theory and phase sampling. He explains how Bluetooth uses Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) of the radio carrier signal that necessitates use of a Constant Tone Extension (CTE) to enable direction finding. It’s explained how Bluetooth Controller IQ sampling fits into the Bluetooth stack.
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