Methods and apparatuses for automatically commissioning locators

An apparatus comprising:

• an antenna array comprising one or more antenna array elements;
• an inertial measurement unit;
• at least one processing component configured to:
• determine, by utilizing the inertial measurement unit, one or more dimensional values pertaining to an orientation of the apparatus;
• cause a first transmission of data comprising the one or more dimensional values to be provided to a computing entity;
• and
• cause a second transmission of data comprising one or more signals indicative that one or more objects have been detected in an environment to be provided to the computing entity.

An apparatus for automatically configuring one or more rotation angles for one or more locator units, the apparatus comprising at least one processing component configured to:

• Receive, from the one or more locator units, one or more dimensional values pertaining to an orientation of the one or more locator units;
• determine, based at least in part on the one or more received dimensional values for each of the one or more locator units and a configuration table pertaining to a locator unit type, the one or more rotation angles for each of the one or more locator units;
• store the one or more rotation angles for the each of the one or more locator units in a memory;
• determine a location for one or more objects in an environment based at least upon the one or more rotation angles for each of the one or more locator units;
• and
• update, based at least in part on the one or more received dimensional values for each of the one or more locator units and the configuration table pertaining to the locator unit type, the one or more rotation angles for each of the one or more locator units.