Asset tracking using active wireless tags that report via a local network of connected beacons

A system, comprising:

• a plurality of lighting devices connected as a network of lighting devices to communicate in a service area, wherein each respective lighting device is configured to transmit a radio frequency signal including a device identifier of the respective lighting device;
• a smart tag configured to communicate with one or more of the lighting devices in the network of lighting devices, the smart tag comprising:
• a radio frequency transceiver;
• and
• a processing device configured, upon execution of instructions maintained in firmware to:
• in response to expiration of a time period or an occurrence of event, transition from a low power consumption sleep mode to an awake mode;
• in the awake mode, receive radio frequency signals transmitted by one or more of the lighting devices in the network of lighting devices;
• measure a received signal strength of the received radio frequency signals;
• associate an indicator of the measured received signal strength of the received radio frequency signals with the device identifier of the one or more lighting devices that transmitted the received radio frequency signal;
• transmit the associated device identifier of the one or more lighting devices in the network of lighting devices as a data packet to a computing device for determination of a position of the smart tag;
• and
• upon transmission of the data packet transition from the awake mode back to the low power consumption sleep mode.