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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2017
Balluff Gmbh, Neuhausen a.d.F., DE;
Matthias Heldmaier, Stuttgart, DE;
Andreas Schuerzinger, Schwaebisch Gmuend, DE;
Daniel Schweizer, Filderstadt, DE;
Balluff GmbH, Neuhausen a.d.F., DE;
Abstract
In a network arrangement for carrying out a location of locating objects that are arranged in a confined space and are able to be moved, the location being carried out by pulsed radio signals, wherein at least three communication-technically autarkic reference nodes that are spatially distributed and form a communication network are arranged in the confined space a communication protocol enables a location object that is arranged in the confined space to be localized by a trilateration carried out by a distance-based trilateration that is carried out by the at least three reference nodes.