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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2023
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Stephen John McCann, Southampton, GB;
Michael Peter Montemurro, Toronto, CA;
James Randolph Winter Lepp, Ottawa, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.