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Re: [core] RSSI in SenML

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 22 March 2017 18:59 UTC

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> 
> dBM is what I've seen.
> 
>> But I don’t think
>> there is any industry-wide way to do this.)
> 
> If you know what device you're getting it from, does it matter that we
> don't have an industry standard?

As long as you know that you don’t know...
Maybe having a unit name for “device specific RSSI units” is fine.

Maybe adding dBm ("dB relative to 1 mW") would also not be a bad idea. 
(We already have dB, but that is a measure of power ratio, not of power.)

Grüße, Carsten

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