System and method for simultaneous location tracking of multiple wireless terminals

A method performed by a system comprising multiple detector units and a controller, each of the multiple detector units comprising an uplink receiver, a downlink receiver, and a processor, the method comprising:

• each detector unit of the multiple detector units:
• intercepting, by the uplink receiver, uplink signals from multiple wireless communication terminals that communicate with one or more base stations of a wireless network;
• intercepting, by the downlink receiver, a downlink signal that has been sent from at least one of the base stations of the wireless network to the multiple wireless communication terminals;
• and
• extracting, by the processor, from the intercepted downlink signal, time-frequency uplink allocations assigned to the respective wireless communication terminals;
• and
• computing respective location coordinates of the wireless communication terminals based on the uplink signals intercepted by the detector units and on the time-frequency uplink allocations.