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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2019
Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Samuel Jester, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Philip Watson, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Steven Bates, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for automated detection of relative position among a plurality of wireless access points (WAPs) deployed in service area. An exemplary service area is the passenger cabin of a commercial airplane. The method can include transmitting a signal on a wireless channel at a fixed power level across the service area. Each WAP can measure a signal strength of the signal received from all other WAPs of the plurality of WAPs. The plurality of WAPs can share reports including signal strengths of the signal transmitted from all of the other WAPs. Each WAP can then form a matrix of measured signal strengths and measuring WAPs including the signal strength of signals transmitted by each WAP as received by all other WAPs as the measuring WAPs. The matrix can be used to determine a relative position of the plurality of WAPs based on the first matrix.