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AssigneeBorgia/Cummins, LLC
InventorsWilliam J. Kaiser, Lars Fredric Newberg, Gregory J. Pottie
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A wireless integrated network sensor (WINS) system is provided that integrates articulating tracking systems with WINS network components including visual or infrared sensors and imaging devices to enable precise tracking and targeting of objects moving through a sensor field or past a single integrated sensing and targeting unit. Further, arrays of sensors together with local signal processing are used to trigger cameras and tracking systems, and to provide an alternative location capability for improved robustness. The system is self-configuring and remotely controllable, and enables remote systems and operators to query for collected data, including sensory and image data, and control the system in response to the collected data.
A sensor network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes are coupled to communicate with at least one remote system via at least one coupling with components of a wide area network, wherein the nodes automatically organize to form the sensor network in response to information communicated among the nodes, wherein the automatic organizing comprises automatically controlling data transfer, processing, and storage within the sensor network, wherein functions of the nodes are remotely controllable and programmable via internetworking among the nodes, wherein at least one of the nodes includes an articulating sensor.
A node comprising:
A method of collecting data in a sensor network, comprising:
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