Google has launched a brand new WifiNanScan app for builders on the Google Play retailer. This app measures distance between two smartphones utilizing the Wi-Fi Aware protocol. Wi-Fi Aware is also referred to as Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN). This protocol permits all units operating Android 8.0 and above to “discover and connect directly to each other without any other type of connectivity between them”. The WifiNanScan app is designed as a analysis, demonstration, and testing device for builders, distributors, universities, and extra. It helps you to use NAN to know the space between two units.

The tech large has releasedd the brand new WifiNanScan app on the Google Play retailer for builders, distributors, and college researchers to experiment with the Wi-Fi Aware protocol that helps two units in proximity to attach with one another with out the necessity for an Internet connection.

“With this app it is possible to obtain a distance measurement with a precision of about one metre with phones up to 15 metres apart. Developers, OEMs, and researchers can use this tool to validate distance/range measurements enabling the development of peer-to-peer ranging and data transfer, find my phone and context-aware applications based on the WiFi Aware/ NAN API,” Google says in its description. This app was first spotted by 9to5Google.

Wi-Fi Aware community connections help greater throughput charges throughout longer distances than Bluetooth connections. These varieties of connections are helpful for apps that share giant quantities of knowledge between customers, similar to photo-sharing apps. Developers can use this expertise of their apps to search out close by units and customers. The new WifiNanScan app is listed as a free obtain on the Google Play retailer underneath the Tools class.

This sits along with the WifiRttScan app launched by Google over two years in the past. This app can decide indoor location with an accuracy starting from 1-2 metres utilizing suitable WiFi-RTT entry factors. This is supposed for use for indoor places the place GPS is kind of ineffective.

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