Automated RFID reader detection

A computer system for initially locating or subsequently calibrating fiducial network components, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors, one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the one or more of the non-transitory computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to spatially locate one or more stationary fiducial network components in the local area network in which the computer system is a member, wherein, when carrying out the instructions, program instructions to determine the spatial location of one or more fiducial network components by:
• program instructions to send a radio signal to two or more fiducial network components, the radio signal including an identity of the nonfiducial network component;
• using radio frequency telemetry from received radio signal responses to the sent radio signal, from fiducial network components, to determine a physical distance between the first nonfiducial network component and any fiducial network component to send a radio signal response to the sent radio signal;
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• program instructions to update a registry with the determined physical distance or distances;
• program instructions to exchange, with other components of the local area network, distances between fiducial network components calculated by the other components of the local area network;
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• program instructions to verify the accuracy of these calculated distances between fiducial network components.

A computer system for spatial locating one or more fiducial network components of a local area network, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors, one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the one or more of the non-transitory computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions receive a unique identifier for a first fiducial network component from one or more fiducial network components;
• program instructions to receive a wireless signal from the first fiducial network component, using radio frequency telemetry from a plurality of received wireless signal responses to a previously sent wireless signal, the received wireless responses from two or more fiducial network components in the local area network, program instructions to initially determine the physical distance between each fiducial network component for which a response was received;
• program instructions to update a registry with the determined physical distance or distances;
• program instructions to exchange, with other components of the local area network, distances between RFID readers calculated by the other components of the local area network;
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• program instructions to verify the accuracy of the calculated distances between RFID readers.