Thank you so much for your answer Mark,
I will have a look at those hardware-dependent interfaces and I will 
keep you informed if I do any progress.

Best Regards

Mark Proctor escribió:
> 
> 1) Timing probably accurate enough, you would have to measure 
> nanoseconds even with out processing at the ends.
> I guess you could try measuring signal strength but that will depend 
> almost as much on the environment as on distance.  
> 
> 2) I think there are are different interfaces for different hardware
>   try googling CC2420Packet and CC2420PacketC
> 
>  > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:20 +0100
>  > From: [email protected]
>  > To: [email protected]
>  > Subject: [Tinyos-help] Distance estimation
>  >
>  > Dear all,
>  >
>  > I wanted to ask a couple questions that are aimed at the same end. The
>  > objective is to be able to localize mobile sensors when the come in the
>  > hearing range of another sensor, for instance, the base station. This
>  > is somehow intended for indoor location tracking. Then my questions are
>  > the following
>  >
>  >
>  > 1) Is it possible to use TinyOS in order to estimate (with a low error,
>  > ie. ~1 meter) the distance between two communicating nodes? My idea is
>  > using round trip times but I don't know how accurate this could be due
>  > to the processing time of the nodes.
>  >
>  >
>  > 2) Is it possible to reduce the transmission power of sensor nodes so
>  > that only a node close can receive the signal? I thought this could
>  > possibly be done with the LowPowerListening interface, but having a
>  > quick look at the interface I only saw methods related to the duty cycle.
>  >
>  > Any comments, suggestions or experiences are welcome
>  >
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