Automated real-time site survey in a shared frequency band environment

A system comprising:

• a. a plurality of radio devices, each at a corresponding known position in a space, each radio device receiving radio frequency energy at its corresponding known position and generating protocol statistics related to performance of communication between one or more sources that communicate using a communication protocol, the protocol statistics describing data rate of packets transmitted, number of packet resends between sources and the number of sources communicating using the communication protocol, and wherein the radio devices further generate spectrum statistics describing power and duty cycle for received radio frequency energy in a given frequency range;
• b. a computing device coupled to the plurality of radio devices, wherein the computing device:
• i. determines positions in the space of one or more sources emitting radio frequency energy in the space from the radio frequency energy received by the radio devices at the known positions;
• and
• ii. correlates the protocol statistics and spectrum statistics received from the plurality of radio devices with positions in the space of the one or more sources;
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• iii. generates data for displaying the protocol and spectrum statistics on a map at positions in the space associated with the occurrence of the signals that led to generation of the protocol statistics and spectrum statistics.

A method for monitoring wireless activity in a radio frequency band, comprising:

• computing positions in a space of one or more devices emitting radio frequency energy in the space from radio frequency energy received at a plurality of known positions;
• generating protocol statistics related to performance of communication between one or more devices that communicate using a communication protocol, the protocol statistics describing data rate of packets transmitted by the one or more devices, number of packet resends by the one or more devices and the number of devices communicating using the communication protocol, and generating spectrum statistics describing power and duty cycle for received radio frequency energy in a given frequency range;
• correlating the protocol statistics and spectrum statistics with positions in the space of the devices which led to generation of the statistics;
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• displaying the statistics on a map at positions to indicate corresponding positions in the space of occurrence of the signals that led to generation of the protocol statistics and spectrum statistics.