My question is how you can determine the distance of the cellphone to the cell tower. It feels like you need one or two extra cell towers as "basepoints" that you can use to measure the absolute time it took for the first vertex tower to receive the signal. Otherwise, the only information you have is that tower 1 received first, then tower 2 received three seconds later, then tower 3 received a second after that. Are three vertex towers still sufficient to pinpoint the location of the cellphone? I'm asking this as a hypothetical. It might be that a single cell tower can determine its distance from the phone simply from the data it receives.
Great question! I believe 3 towers are enough. The distance between towers are already known. So using the time difference it takes to the cell phone signal to reach the towers, we could determine its exact location. Any additional towers could be used as a correction factor or improve resolution.
@@audryk.7825 After asking this question, I plotted it in Desmos and got a triangulation of three hyperbolas instead of three circles. Three *is* enough!
Very informative video and straight to the point! ❤
Straight to the point 👌
My question is how you can determine the distance of the cellphone to the cell tower. It feels like you need one or two extra cell towers as "basepoints" that you can use to measure the absolute time it took for the first vertex tower to receive the signal. Otherwise, the only information you have is that tower 1 received first, then tower 2 received three seconds later, then tower 3 received a second after that. Are three vertex towers still sufficient to pinpoint the location of the cellphone?
I'm asking this as a hypothetical. It might be that a single cell tower can determine its distance from the phone simply from the data it receives.
Great question! I believe 3 towers are enough. The distance between towers are already known. So using the time difference it takes to the cell phone signal to reach the towers, we could determine its exact location. Any additional towers could be used as a correction factor or improve resolution.
@@audryk.7825 After asking this question, I plotted it in Desmos and got a triangulation of three hyperbolas instead of three circles. Three *is* enough!
Great video helped me understand in under a minute
Noooo all this while I thought we are inside the triangle 😭
Loved it ❤
yaye
isn't this general knowledge