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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Iloc Technologies Inc., Pointe-Claire, CA;
Yves Messier, Pierrefonds, CA;
Laura Watkins, Pierrefonds, CA;
Jerome Baron, Laval, CA;
Sylvain Ainsley, St-Eustache, CA;
Ron Toledano, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA;
Aravind Radhakrishna Warrier, Montreal, CA;
SAFETRACKS GPS CANADA INC., Red Deer, AB, CA;
Abstract
A personal locator beacon system including at least one individual locator device and a plurality of battery powered wireless beacons installed at different locations within a facility. Each individual locator device is worn by a corresponding individual and has a local wireless transceiver and a GPS receiver. The plurality of beacons include at least a subset of reed switch beacons installed at different doorway locations within the facility. Each reed switch beacon is configured to transmit an identification signal with a predetermined signal strength for reception by the local wireless transceiver of the individual locator device within a designated area of the facility, as well as to selectively acquire a perimeter mode for detecting opening of a respective door of the facility.