System and method of personalized navigation inside a business enterprise

A method for tracking locations of individuals in a building, the method comprising:

• receiving, by at least one radiofrequency (RF) node disposed near an entrance to the building, RF signals from RF-transmitting mobile devices carried by a plurality of persons near the entrance to the building;
• capturing an image of the plurality of persons while the plurality of persons is near the entrance to the building;
• determining an identity of each RF-transmitting mobile device and an angular position of each RF-transmitting mobile device from each RF node based on information associated with the RF signals received by the at least one RF node;
• detecting a plurality of humans and an orientation marker in the captured image;
• assigning the identity of each RF-transmitting mobile device to one of the plurality of humans detected in the captured image based on a position of the orientation marker in the image relative to each human detected in the image and on the determined angular position of each RF-transmitting mobile device with respect to each RF node, thereby identifying each individual who is to be located optically as that individual moves throughout the building.

A system for tracking locations of individuals in a building, the system comprising:

• at least one radiofrequency (RF) node disposed near an entrance to the building, the at least one RF node having an RF receiver channel to receive RF signals from a plurality of RF-transmitting devices near the entrance to the building;
• at least one camera disposed near the entrance to the building, the at least one camera capturing an image of a plurality of persons while the plurality of persons is near the entrance to the building;
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• a controller in communication with the at least one RF node to obtain therefrom information associated with the RF signals received by the RF receiver channel of that at least one RF node and in communication with the at least one camera to obtain therefrom the captured image, the controller being configured to determine an identity of each RF-transmitting device and a position of that RF-transmitting device relative to each RF node of the at least one RF node based on the information associated with the RF signals obtained by the controller from that RF node of the at least one RF node, to detect a plurality of humans in the image obtained by the controller from the at least one camera, to detect an orientation marker in the image, and to assign the identity of each RF-transmitting device to one of the plurality of humans detected in the image based on a position of the orientation marker in the image relative to each human detected in the image and on the determined position of that RF-transmitting device relative to each RF node of the at least one RF node.