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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2015
Cloudleaf, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Raghavendra Kulkarni, Fremont, CA (US);
Sharath Narahari, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ravindar Roopreddy, Fremont, CA (US);
CloudLeaf, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for determining real time location of leaf node device, the system including at least one battery-powered Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled leaf node device, wherein the at least one leaf node device is associated with a corresponding monitored asset; and at least one beam forming reader node in communication, via BLE, with the at least one leaf node, the reader node creating a plurality of sectorized beams in a plurality of sectors and collecting data related to the at least one leaf node device from at least one of the plurality of sectors, wherein a location processing facility determines the real-time location of the at least one leaf node device based on the data collected by the beam forming reader node.