Location tracking based on proximity-based ad hoc network

A system for constructing a proximity-based ad hoc network among a plurality of sensors, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories that store computer programs that are executed by the one or more processors, the computer programs including:
• a communications manager that is executed by at least one of the one or more processors to receive sensor data from each of the plurality of sensors, wherein the sensor data received from each of the plurality of sensors identifies one or more beacons detected by the sensor and includes one or more time codes indicating when each of the one or more beacons was respectively detected by the sensor;
• and
• a location tracking manager that is executed by at least one of the one or more processors to extract temporally proximate sensor data from the received sensor data based on the time codes included in the received sensor data, to identify spatially and temporally proximate sensors in the plurality of sensors based at least on the detected beacons identified by the temporally proximate sensor data, and to construct an ad hoc network among the spatially and temporally proximate sensors.

A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage device having computer program logic recorded thereon for enabling a processing unit to construct a proximity-based ad hoc network, the computer program logic comprising:

• first computer program logic that is executable by the processing unit to receive sensor data from each of the plurality of sensors, wherein the sensor data received from each of the plurality of sensors identifies one or more beacons detected by the sensor and includes one or more time codes indicating when each of the one or more beacons was respectively detected by the sensor;
• second computer program logic that is executable by the processing unit to extract temporally proximate sensor data from the received sensor data based on the time codes included in the received sensor data;
• third computer program logic that is executable by the processing unit to identify spatially and temporally proximate sensors in the plurality of sensors based at least on the detected beacons identified by the temporally proximate sensor data;
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• fourth computer program logic that is executable by the processing unit to construct an ad hoc network among the spatially and temporally proximate sensors.