US 9,872,151 B1Granted

System and method for discovery and collection of real-time location data

AssigneeLeantegra Inc.

InventorsOleg Puzanov, Andrii Skriabin, Ihor Korsun, Oleh Hordiichuk

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Abstract

A real-time location system (RTLS) includes wireless signal collectors, gateway devices, wireless tags, mobile devices, server, and web portal. The gateway devices receive sense signals associated with targets from the wireless signal collectors. Each of the sense signals includes a measurement value (e.g., a RSSI value), an identification of respective wireless signal collector, and an identification of a wireless tag or mobile device of a target. The gateway devices calculate the current geographical location of the targets based on the sense signals. The gateway devices send location data of the targets to the server for further processing and storing in a data storage. The web portal is operable to simultaneously display visual representations of real-time location data of multiple targets and statistical information.

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Dependent claims

A real-time location system, the system comprising:

at least one wireless signal collector, wherein the at least one wireless signal collector is for deploying on premises of an entity and configured to provide wireless multi-protocol communication with a plurality of wireless tags and a plurality of mobile devices;
and
a gateway device comprising at least one processor and a memory storing processor-executable codes, wherein the at least one processor is configured to implement the following operations upon executing the processor-executable codes:
receiving a plurality of sense signals associated with a target each first period, each of the sense signals being generated by the at least one wireless signal collector being in operative communication with the gateway device, wherein each of the sense signals includes a measurement value associated with an identification of the at least one wireless signal collector and at least one of an identification of a wireless tag and an identification of a mobile device;
dynamically calculating a location of the target based on the plurality of sense signals, the location being associated with the entity based on the identification of the at least one wireless signal collector;
and
sending the location of the target to a server for aggregation and storing in a data storage.

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A method for discovering and collecting real-time location data, the method comprising:

receiving by a gateway device a plurality of sense signals associated with a target each first period, each of the sense signals being generated by at least one wireless signal collector being in operative communication with the gateway device, wherein the at least one wireless signal collector is for deploying on premises of an entity and configured to provide wireless multi-protocol communication with a plurality of wireless tags and a plurality of mobile devices, wherein each of the sense signals includes a measurement value associated with an identification of the at least one wireless signal collector and at least one of an identification of a wireless tag and an identification of a mobile device;
dynamically calculating by the gateway device a location of the target based on the plurality of sense signals, the location being associated with the entity based on the identification of the at least one wireless signal collector;
and
sending the location of the target by the gateway device to a server for aggregation and storing in a data storage.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.