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Short Range wireless devices are becoming more and more popular for ubiquitous sensor and actuator connectivity in industrial communication scenarios. Apart from communication-only scenarios, there are also mission-critical use cases where the distance between the two communicating nodes needs to be determined precisely. Applications such as Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV's), Automatic Train Pairing additionally require the devices to scan the environment and detect any potential humans/obstacles. Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) has emerged as a promising candidate for Real-Time Ranging and Localization (RTRL) due to advantages such as large channel capacity, better co-existence with legacy systems due to low transmit power, better performance in multipath environments etc. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a UWB COTS device - TimeDomain P440 which can operate as a ranging radio …