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US 11,153,714 B2Granted
Beacon verification device
AssigneeSignify Holding B.V.
InventorsMatthias Wendt, Peter Deixler, Harald Josef Günther Radermacher
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Abstract
An electronic verification system is provided, comprising: (I) multiple electronic verification devices (120), comprising: —a beacon receiver (124) arranged to receive localizing beacon signals transmitted from multiple beacons (110) installed in the vicinity of the multiple verification devices, the verification device transmits the beacon message to an external beacon verification computer, and (II) the beacon verification computer (130) configured to analyze the multiple beacon messages to determine if a localization system comprising the multiple beacons is functioning correctly.
Claims14
An electronic verification system for a localization system comprising multiple beacons, wherein the electronic verification system is a connected lighting system, the electronic verification system comprising:
- a beacon verification computer;
- and
- multiple electronic verification devices, the multiple electronic verification devices including at least one or more luminaires, wherein each of the electronic verification devices comprises:
- a communication interface arranged to communicate with the beacon verification computer,
- a beacon receiver arranged to receive localizing beacon signals transmitted from the multiple beacons, a given localizing beacon signal of said localizing beacon signals comprising a beacon identifier identifying the beacon from which the given localizing beacon signal originated,
- a beacon identifier memory for storing beacon identifiers received by the beacon receiver, and
- a processor circuit configured to
- generate a beacon message comprising the beacon identifiers stored in the beacon identifier memory, and
- transmit the beacon message comprising the beacon identifiers stored in the beacon identifier memory to the beacon verification computer, and
- the beacon verification computer comprising:
- a communication interface arranged to communicate with the multiple electronic verification devices, and receive multiple beacon messages comprising beacon identifiers from the multiple electronic verification devices, and
- a computer processor circuit configured to
- analyze the multiple beacon messages by computing a similarity measure between beacon reception at first and second electronic verification devices of the multiple electronic verification devices and determining that the similarity measure passes a threshold, wherein passing said threshold indicates a higher degree of similarity than not passing said threshold, and wherein the computer processor circuit is configured to interpret the similarity measure passing the threshold as indicating that the localization system comprising the multiple beacons is functioning incorrectly, wherein functioning incorrectly indicates that locations of the first and second electronic verification devices are effectively indistinguishable by the localization system.
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A beacon verification computer, comprising:
- a communication interface arranged to communicate with multiple electronic verification devices in a connected lighting system, the multiple electronic verification devices including at least one or more luminaires, and to receive multiple beacon messages comprising beacon identifiers from the multiple electronic verification devices, wherein each of the multiple electronic verification devices comprises:
- a communication interface arranged to communicate with the beacon verification computer,
- a beacon receiver arranged to receive localizing beacon signals transmitted from multiple beacons of a localization system, a given localizing beacon signal of said localizing beacon signals comprising a beacon identifier identifying the beacon from which the given localizing beacon signal originated,
- a beacon identifier memory for storing beacon identifiers received by the beacon receiver, and
- a processor circuit configured to
- generate a beacon message comprising the beacon identifiers stored in the beacon identifier memory, and
- transmit the beacon message comprising the beacon identifiers stored in the beacon identifier memory to the beacon verification computer, and the beacon verification computer further comprising:
- a computer processor circuit configured to
- analyze the multiple beacon messages by computing a similarity measure between beacon reception at first and second electronic verification devices of the multiple electronic verification devices and determining that the similarity measure passes a threshold, wherein passing said threshold indicates a higher degree of similarity than not passing said threshold, and wherein the computer processor circuit is configured to interpret the similarity measure passing the threshold as indicating that the localization system comprising the multiple beacons is functioning incorrectly, wherein functioning incorrectly indicates that locations of the first and second electronic verification devices are effectively indistinguishable by the localization system.
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A beacon verification computer, comprising:
- a communication interface arranged to communicate with multiple electronic verification devices in a connected lighting system, the multiple electronic verification devices including at least one or more luminaires, and to receive multiple beacon messages comprising beacon identifiers from the multiple electronic verification devices, wherein each of the multiple electronic verification devices comprises:
- a communication interface arranged to communicate with the beacon verification computer,
- a beacon receiver arranged to receive localizing beacon signals transmitted from multiple beacons of a localization system, a given localizing beacon signal of said localizing beacon signals comprising a beacon identifier identifying the beacon from which the given localizing beacon signal originated,
- a beacon identifier memory for storing beacon identifiers received by the beacon receiver, and
- a processor circuit configured to
- generate a beacon message comprising the beacon identifiers stored in the beacon identifier memory, and
- transmit the beacon message comprising the beacon identifiers stored in the beacon identifier memory to the beacon verification computer, and the beacon verification computer further comprising:
- a computer processor circuit configured to
- analyze the multiple beacon messages to determine if the localization system comprising the multiple beacons is functioning incorrectly by computing a similarity measure between beacon reception at first and second electronic verification devices of the multiple electronic verification devices and determining that the similarity measure passes a threshold, wherein functioning incorrectly indicates that locations of the first and second electronic verification devices are effectively indistinguishable by the localization system,
- wherein the computer processor circuit is arranged to obtain a list of known beacon identifiers of the multiple beacons, which are installed in a building, wherein the list of known beacon identifiers further includes a signal strength indication correlated to a given beacon identifier received by at least one electronic verification device of the multiple electronic verification devices, and wherein the computer processor circuit is further arranged to
- determine that the given beacon identifier, which is in a given beacon message from the at least one electronic verification device, has a signal strength indication in the given beacon message which is smaller than the signal strength indication in the list of known beacon identifiers.
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A beacon verification method, comprising:
- receiving beacon messages comprising beacon identifiers from multiple electronic verification devices, the beacon messages comprising beacon identifiers received by the multiple electronic verification devices in localizing beacon signals transmitted from multiple beacons of a localization system and received at the multiple electronic verification devices,
- analyzing the beacon messages by computing a similarity measure between beacon reception at first and second electronic verification devices of the multiple electronic verification devices and determining that the similarity measure passes a threshold, wherein passing said threshold indicates a higher degree of similarity than not passing said threshold, and wherein the analyzing comprises interpreting the similarity measure passing the threshold as indicating that the localization system comprising the multiple beacons is functioning incorrectly, wherein functioning incorrectly indicates that locations of the first and second electronic verification devices are effectively indistinguishable by the localization system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.