Lot of people mix the term RSSI and RSS in the RF industry, the Field engineers, developers, testers.
RSSI - Received Signal Strength Indicator
RSS - Received Signal Strength
RSSI is an indicator and RSS is the real value. Ok, now what do you mean by indicator, indicator mean it can be a relative value and RSSI is always a positive value and there is no unit for the RSSI.
We can say RSSI is for common man to understand. RF values are always told in dBm and the values are negative values most of the time. To make it easy for the people to understand these negative values are converted to positive values through scaling.
Say for example, if the maximum signal strength is 0dBm and minimum is -100dBm. we can scale it like as explained. We can put 0 dBm and more (RSS) as 100 RSSI(ie maximum RSSI) and -100 dBm(or less) as 0 RSSI(minimum RSS).
RSS is the actual signal strength received at the receiver and the unit of measurement can be in dBm, dB, milli Watt, Watt. So RSS will always have a unit.
RSSI - Received Signal Strength Indicator
RSS - Received Signal Strength
RSSI is an indicator and RSS is the real value. Ok, now what do you mean by indicator, indicator mean it can be a relative value and RSSI is always a positive value and there is no unit for the RSSI.
We can say RSSI is for common man to understand. RF values are always told in dBm and the values are negative values most of the time. To make it easy for the people to understand these negative values are converted to positive values through scaling.
Say for example, if the maximum signal strength is 0dBm and minimum is -100dBm. we can scale it like as explained. We can put 0 dBm and more (RSS) as 100 RSSI(ie maximum RSSI) and -100 dBm(or less) as 0 RSSI(minimum RSS).
RSS is the actual signal strength received at the receiver and the unit of measurement can be in dBm, dB, milli Watt, Watt. So RSS will always have a unit.
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