Hotel Room Finder: WiFi Based Location System to Find Home
I find this project from Hans-Günther Nusseck up on Hackster.io oddly appealing — and also comforting. It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who gets easily turned around when looking for my hotel room!
Is it possible to determine the position of my hotel room with sufficient accuracy using an ESP32 or ESP8266 device? The answer is simple: Yes, it can work if there are enough WiFI access points spread around in the hotel, enough time to walk up and down the floor for hours and don’t get kicked out because of acting seriously suspicious.
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