Method and system of determining an estimated position of a target electronically tagged object
AssigneeHaystack Magic Inc.
InventorsMisha Nossik, Dmitry Sotnikov, Alex Efros, Vadim Gouterman, Neil Teitelbaum
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Abstract
A method and system for determining a position of tagged objects by their proximity to each other, where the position of a target object is provided as common names of other objects nearby. This allows new ways of tracking objects that are required to be together with each other, or to be within a certain area, while reducing the power consumption of electronic tags and tag readers.
Claims13
In a system having a plurality of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons transmitting their ID and wherein tagged objects have a tag descriptor and a descriptive identity unrelated to location thereof, a method of providing the relative location of an electronically tagged target object comprising:
- using a plurality of suitably programmed mobile devices to read IDs of at least some of the BLE beacons transmitting their IDs, wherein at least some mobile devices read the ID of a same electronically tagged object;
- transmitting the read IDs and relative location information from the mobile devices to a server;
- storing the read IDs and relative location information on the server, wherein the server after collecting data from plural mobile devices determines a spatial relationship between different received IDs;
- upon receiving a query for the location of the tagged target object or the identity of an electronic tagged object in proximity to the tagged target object, the sever determining from the database of a plurality of tagged objects one or more tagged objects that is in proximity to the target tagged object and returning the descriptive identity of the one or more tagged objects in proximity to the target tagged object.
In a system having a plurality of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons transmitting their ID and wherein tagged objects have a tag descriptor and a descriptive identity unrelated to location thereof,
- a method of providing the relative location of an electronically tagged target object comprising:
- using a plurality of suitably programmed mobile devices to read IDs of at least some of the BLE beacons transmitting their IDs, wherein at least some mobile devices read the ID of a same electronically tagged object;
- transmitting the read IDs and relative location information from the mobile devices to a server;
- storing the read IDs and relative location information on the server, wherein the server after collecting data from plural mobile devices determines a spatial relationship between different received IDs;
- upon receiving a query for the location of the tagged target object or the identity of an electronic tagged object in proximity to the tagged target object, the sever
- determining from the database of a plurality of tagged objects one or more tagged objects that is in proximity to the target tagged object and returning the descriptive identity of the one or more tagged objects in proximity to the target tagged object
- wherein tagged objects are each tagged with a BLE beacon having a unique identity;
- measuring a first distance between the remote reader mobile device and the target BLE beacon
- measuring a second distance between a second mobile device and the target BLE beacon;
- if both distances are less than 10 ft, concluding that distance between the mobile device and the second mobile device is less than 20 ft, reducing the first reader rate of scanning for signals from the BLE beacons used to electronically tag the said objects in order to reduce the first reader power consumption.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.