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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2005
Applicants:
Karsten Funk, Stuttgart, DE;
Bhaskar Srinivasan, Belmont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Karsten Funk, Stuttgart, DE;
Bhaskar Srinivasan, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 (2006.01); H04Q 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sensor node arrangement in a wireless network, includes a sensor to sense information, an RF transceiver to communicate the information to at least one element of the wireless network, and a coil to establish a secondary communications channel with a handheld device via inductive coupling, the secondary communications channel used, for example, to receive, during installation of the sensor node arrangement, a node identifier of the sensor node arrangement.