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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2010
Baruch Eruchimovitch, Haifa, IL;
Gilad Bornstein, Haifa, IL;
Nir Strauss, Haifa, IL;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for tracking various assets. The apparatus includes a hybrid tracking device (HTD) for tracking an associated asset. The HTD includes a personal area network (PAN) transceiver to couple the HTD to a gateway, proxy or slave HTDs. The HTD may include a sensor to generate sensor information. Alternatively, the sensor information is generated remotely. The sensor information includes a determined location and/or information characteristic of an HTD or its environment. Sensor information from one sensor is used to represent HTDs separated by the PAN. The HTD may also include a wide area network (WAN) transceiver to communicate with an asset tracking server.