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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2014
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
John K. Hughes, Coarsegold, CA (US);
James J. O'Hagan, McHenry, IL (US);
Cynthia Traeger, Fairfax, VA (US);
Jill Stelfox, San Jose, CA (US);
Bob Kuehne, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for improving, in some examples, backhaul of sensor and other data to a real time location system (RTLS) network. In the context of a method for communication by a tag, the method includes receiving, at the tag, sensor data from at least one sensor, generating, using a processor of the tag, a tag blink data packet, the tag blink data packet including a tag identifier and at least a portion of the received sensor data, and transmitting the tag blink data packet.