I’m thinking about making an app that requires two UWB things to work. I can’t seem to find anything about them and I haven’t got the money to just try it out. The questions are:
- how far can the iPhone be to a moving UWB chip to make a connection?
- can this work in the background? If so, is it intermittent?
i need to be able to detect moving objects pretty reliably and have the app respond when it isn’t open. I guess a bit like the Covid tracking stuff.
would the Apple frameworks allow for me to do this?
Hello @Hobson,
I recommend that you watch this WWDC session to learn about Nearby Interaction background sessions (link is timestamped to the relevant portion of the video):
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10008/?time=1118
As for your question about UWB range, I don't have figures to share, though I can say that second generation UWB chips support Extended Distance Measurement (see Extending advanced direction finding and ranging).
Best regards,
Greg
