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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2016
New Bis Safe Luxco S.à R.l, Luxembourg, LU;
Andrew John Cardno, San Diego, CA (US);
Babu Arunachalam, San Diego, CA (US);
Matthew John Paul Simmonds, Wellington, NZ;
Paul Allan Cardno, Waitati, NZ;
Paul Valer'evich Sheliastovich, Wellington, NZ;
Guillermo Quiros Manser, Wellington, NZ;
New BIS Safe Luxco S.à r.l, Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
A positioning determination method using an improved RFID location tag is described the tag including an RFID controller; memory; a power management module; and an accelerometer. The position determination method including the steps of periodically polling the RFID tags for information; receiving information from a plurality of reference RFID tags at a known location; receiving information from the non reference RFID tags, the information including the tag id and sensor data; calculating for each non reference and referenced RFID tag a received signal strength indication; and calculating an initial position for each non reference RFID tag based on the received signal strength indications and the positions of the reference RFID tags.