Intel Corporation

Daniel Gutwein

Addicam V Sanjay

Michael C Wu

John Belstner

Hoang Tran Van

Kalpana A Algotar

Scott Thomas

Daniel Stokes

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for autonomous sensor placement discovery for RFID systems are disclosed. Sensors are deployed in a brick and mortar store that can scan for and receive signals from a plurality of locating tags as well as RFID tags. The locating tags may transmit ultra-wideband signals in response to a scan to provide precise determination of the location of each locating tag relative to a detecting sensor. Each sensor may also include a locating tag to enable determining the location of each sensor. The location information from the locating tags is provided to a gateway, which can provide a display of the locations of sensors and locating tags in the brick and mortar store and areas of no coverage, as well as autonomously control various parameters of the sensors to minimize or eliminate some or all areas of no coverage.

Autonomous sensor placement discovery method and apparatus

In various embodiments, an RFID Antenna/Tag Location Configuration device (RLC) may facilitate placement of one or more RFID antennas in a physical space. The RLC may collect RFID data from tags determine which of the RFID antennas need to be relocated. The RLC may determine, based on collected RFID data, whether each antenna is a dominant antenna and/or has a substantial read rate. If an antenna is not dominant and/or does not exhibit a substantial read-rate, the RLC ma indicate that the antenna should be relocated. The RLC may also be configured to filter collected RFID data prior to using the data for determination of antennas. The RLC may also determine, using the RFID antennas, a physical location of RFID tags in the physical space using detected signal strength for RFID tags. Additional embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

RFID antenna re-location and/or RFID location

Apparatus and method to facilitate determination of item locations are disclosed herein. One or more storage medium to store a plurality of initial tag to item holder mappings that define associations between select ones of a plurality of tags associated with items to select ones of a plurality of item holders that hold the items; one or more processors; and read rate and match modules to be executed by the one or more processors may be provided. The read rate module is to generate a current detection rate by one or more antennas for each tag identified in a plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings. The match module is to determine at least one item holder at which each respective tag identified in the plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings is most likely to be currently located to provide a location of the item.

Tagged item locator method and apparatus

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Daniel Gutwein