Tracking Multiple People with MDEK1001 & Saving Position Data

Wireless Connectivity Ultra-Wideband
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Hi everyone,

We are using the MDEK1001 kit to track multiple people in a large room. The DRTLS Manager App displays the tag positions and has a position log, but there doesn’t seem to be an option to save it. Is there an easy way to extract this data from the phone? Ideally, we would also like a start timestamp for the recorded positions.

Additionally, we have set up a listener following the instructions in the user manual and are communicating with it via Tera Term. However, we have encountered two issues:

  1. Timestamps in Tera Term
  • The position data from the listener does not include timestamps.
  • Is there a way to add timestamps to each position entry?
  1. Getting Both Position and Distance Data
  • We need the (x, y, z) positions of the tags worn by people.
  • We also need the distances from each anchor to each tag at every timestamp.
  • With our current listener setup, we only receive the tag positions, but not the anchor-to-tag distances.
  • How can we retrieve both the tag positions AND the distances from the anchors?

Any guidance on extracting and logging this data efficiently would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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Hi @AnneT

the PANS and DRTLS are a quite old aps. I think that there is source code available for the DRTLS app on the Qorvo web pages so you can modify it. It is a really old app so it might some while before you will modify it to be able to compile it today. FYI: the MDEK SW has been discontinued a long time ago.

There will be soon available UDK1 dev kit - https://www.leapslabs.com/products this is a new DEV kit based on DW3000 chip from muRata (2AB module). You can buy it here:
(LEAPS s.r.o. UDK1 | Symmetry Electronics) or here (LEAPS s.r.o. UDK1 | Onanoff)
It should be available via Qorvo distribution channels soon. It is based a newer version of the LEAPS RTLS SW with updated APIs. It will be also updated.

Re teraterm) I have never work with it, but I thin that it would be very easy to write a small app which will read the output of the listener line by line and add timestamp to it.

Re Position and distances) It is avaible only via BLE or on the TAG itself.

Cheers
JK