Thermal imaging for room-level real-time location service

A real-time location services (RTLS) system, the system comprising:

• a processing device including at least one hardware processor operatively coupled to the physical layer circuitry;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations including:
• receiving location information identifying an object or person and a building-area location of the object or person from a receiver device of the system;
• receiving access-event information of access of a physical access portal associated with the building-area location from an access detector device of the system;
• and
• matching the location information of the identified object or person and the access-event information and generating an indication of the building-area location of the object or person in response to the matching.

A processing device for a real-time location service (RTLS) system, the processing device comprising:

• physical layer circuitry configured to receive a beacon signal;
• at least one hardware processor operatively coupled to the physical layer circuitry;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations including:
• decoding an identifier in the beacon signal that identifies an object or person;
• associating the identified object or person with a building-area location associated with the processing device;
• obtaining access-event information of access of a physical access portal associated with the building-area location;
• matching the building-area location of the object or person using the access-event information;
• and
• generating an indication of the building-area location of the identified object or person in response to the matching.