WiFi Positioning with XBee

Wireless & IoT
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Hello,

I’m trying to create a small device which will collect WiFi BSSIDs (not necessarily connect) then send the BSSIDS via XBee (for range) to another Xbee enabled device which will query a WiFi database like Google to return the lat/long position based on the detected BSSIDs.

So I’m considering the Sparkfun ESP8266 Thing to handle the WIFI collection.

I then need to connect the thing to a XBee to transmit the detected BSSIDs to the device which will perform the query. I’m trying to keep size down and easily integrate battery power so I think the Thing is a good choice.

Is there an easy way to connect the Thing to an XBee shield that will allow communication of the BSSIDs to the XBee for transmitting?

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Bump.

I’m also considering using the Edison because our code is already setup in Python and should work well in Linux.