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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
May. 16, 2000
Scott Charles Evans, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
David Michael Davenport, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Harold Woodruff Tomlinson, Jr., Scotia, NY (US);
Ralph Thomas Hoctor, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II, Scotia, NY (US);
Stephen Michael Hladik, Albany, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
An integrated tracking, telemetry and local area networking system is provided. A communications system comprises a broadband subsystem comprising at least one UWB node including a first UWB transceiver and at least one application node linked to the UWB node by a broadband link. The system further comprises a wireless subsystem comprising at least one remote communicator, the remote communicator including a second UWB transceiver. The first and second UWB transceivers are configured to communicate with each other via an UWB communications link.