Bluetooth additions using PANS on DWM1001

Wireless Connectivity Ultra-Wideband
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So, I’m a bit confused at this point with DWM1001 and the PANS lib.

I planned to have a few additional sensors on a board along with DWM1001, and use the C user API to both sample the sensors (I2C) and send the data over bluetooth along with position and others to a cell phone.

At this point, I’m seriously doubting this is possible using PANS, since I could not find a way to add any new attributes to the bluetooth protocol for the additional sensor data. I also considered exploring the “user data” for that but I’m not clear where this data is sent (to anchors? to UART/SPI?) and I don’t feel it can be sent over BLE either…

Can someome confirm this is possible with PANS lib? or would I have to not compile the PANS BLE part in, and rewrite the whole bluetooth handling (although I couldn’t seem to compile easily the nordic SDK in)

Thanks,
Phil

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Hi Phil,

The BLE interface cannot be customised with PANS.

If you wish to add sensors, you can either process the data locally on the module, or send it to a gateway through UWB data uplink/downlink. Maybe have a look at the gateway quick deployment guide.

Hope it helps,
Regards
Yves

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Thanks Yves, I’ll take a look at the gateway option.