Hello, I wanted to see if there were any updates to location fusion/edge firmware availability for the msom since my last post a few months ago. I saw that the map is now available in the Particle console, but I have only seen cell based location so far.
There is no plan to make location fusion fully available to everyone on the M-SoM. It's not really part of Tracker Edge or Monitor Edge, per se. That software publishes a loc event that contains the GNSS location (if available), Wi-Fi AP information, and cell tower information to the cloud. That could be done by a firmware library on the M-SoM without needing the entire Edge firmware.
However, the other part of location fusion is the cloud service that converts this raw data into coordinates. There's also historical location storage and mapping. This part won't be available to all devices, though it may be available on enterprise and pro plans in the future.
If I were to prepare the cell and wifi info into a publish in the same format as monitor-edge firmware on the msom, would particle cloud be able to recognize the event and use it to provide historical location storage and mapping? I see that historic info for cell data is currently available, so it seems like with a few changes to my firmware I could include wifi access points to get better tracking.
Historical location for non-Tracker devices is only available for enterprise plan customers. It's not available on the free or basic plans. There will be more information on this feature coming soon.
But yes, if it's enabled for your non-Tracker product, you would just publish the loc event in the same format as the Tracker and it would work with location fusion, location history API, maps in the console, etc..
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Do you have the format for this loc event?