bluetooth Get Started With Bluetooth LE on Windows Judging Distance Based on RSSI from a Bluetooth LE Advertisement

Example

When your Bluetooth LE Watcher's callback is triggered, the eventArgs include an RSSI value telling you the received signal strength (how strong the

private async void OnAdvertisementReceived(BluetoothLEAdvertisementWatcher watcher, BluetoothLEAdvertisementReceivedEventArgs eventArgs)
{
    // The received signal strength indicator (RSSI)
    Int16 rssi = eventArgs.RawSignalStrengthInDBm;
}

This can be roughly translated into distance, but should not be used to measure true distances as each individual radio is different. Different environmental factors can make distance difficult to gauge (such as walls, cases around the radio, or even air humidity).

An alternative to judging pure distance is to define "buckets". Radios tend to report 0 to -50 DBm when they are very close, -50 to -90 when they are a medium distance away, and below -90 when they are far away. Trial and error is best to determine what you want these buckets to be for you application.