Systems and methods for determining operational status of functional components of a wireless signal transmission environment

A transceiver system comprising:

• an adaptively-phased antenna array having multiple radio-frequency (RF) transceivers;
• control circuitry operably coupled with the adaptively-phased antenna, the control circuitry configured to:
• determine a value of at least one waveform characteristic of a signal received at the multiple RF antennas of the transceiver system, wherein the signal is initiated by a client power receiver at a first location in the wireless signal transmission environment;
• compute, based at least in part on the value of the at least one waveform characteristic, a transceiver system operational status for the client power receiver at the first location;
• compare the transceiver system operational status for the client power receiver at the first location with a prior-stored last known transceiver system operational status for the client power receiver at the first location;
• and
• identify, based on the comparison, at least one functional problem in at least one of the transceiver system and the client power receiver.

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, wherein the program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems of a transceiver system, direct the transceiver system to:
• determine a value of at least one waveform characteristic of a signal received at the multiple RF antennas of the transceiver system, wherein the signal is initiated by a client power receiver at a first location in the wireless signal transmission environment;
• compute, based at least in part on the value of the at least one waveform characteristic, a transceiver system operational status for the client power receiver at the first location;
• compare the transceiver system operational status for the client power receiver at the first location with a prior-stored last known transceiver system operational status for the client power receiver at the first location;
• and
• identify, based on the comparison, at least one functional problem in at least one of the transceiver system and the client power receiver.