A city hospital wants either coarse presence detection for infusion pumps or meter-level RTLS trilateration for high-value assets. How should wireless density requirements be treated?
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Short Explanation
Presence is like knowing a pump is 'somewhere on this floor'; trilateration is like wanting the room and nearly the bay. Meter-level work needs denser, calibrated locators—not the same AP plan as basic coverage. One hallway AP or captive-portal logins will not magically become RTLS.
Full Explanation
Location methods differ in accuracy and infrastructure cost. Simple presence or zone detection can often use coarser AP or beacon density, whereas trilateration or multilateration for meter-class accuracy typically requires denser, well-placed, and calibrated reference points plus careful RF planning. Equating any coverage design with high-accuracy RTLS, or substituting captive-portal events for RF location, misstates requirements.