Bluezoo, Inc.

Bluefox, Inc.

Thibault De Lacheze-Murel

Jan Willem Korver

Paul-Ambroise Augustin Duquenne

Philippe Rene Morin

Guillaume Tenant De La Tour

Hang Ung

Thomas Sandholm

Jerome Lejeune

Amanda Mills

Thuong Ho

Disclosed is a technique for passively monitoring the number of guests in a rental property. Mobile device broadcasts intended for connecting the device to a wireless network contain information about that device. This information includes unique identifiers such as MAC addresses. Detecting these broadcasts and filtering out those devices that are expected enables a property owner to have a semi-accurate number of guests within their property without actually being at the property, or visibly observing the guests in an obtrusive fashion. Guests are able to enjoy themselves in privacy and the property owner is able to monitor the safety of their property.

Mobile device detection and tracking

Disclosed herein is a people-counting system that counts people in a given area based on the signals that are emitted by the respective people's mobile devices, such as cell phones. In order to count passively, the system receives and analyzes network probes transmitted by the wireless devices and correlates groups of fake machine identifiers in order to identify a given device. Where this passive approach is unsuccessful, or determined low certainty, an active approach involving data layer packets such as: CTS/RTS, authentication and dissociation packets. Device's response or lack thereof is analyzed to provide further accuracy to a local device count.

Passive and active techniques for people-counting

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Thibault De Lacheze-Murel