A system for location of animals and/or objects in an environment includes a signal processing and signal generation system consisting of electromagnetic tags on animals (or other objects) in an environment (typically a three dimension outdoor natural environment) where the animals or objects are physically present at arbitrary locations, and an electro-magnetic signal generating, signal receiving, and signal processing system that can move through or in relation to the environment. The system can compute the location and identity of the animals or objects based on signals received from their associated tags, including the calculated location of the ID tags, which function as “Reader-Locators.” The calculated location is enhanced by information about the environment provided by maps, satellite photos, GPS, GIS and/or other data specific to the probability of the location of the animals or objects within certain regions of the environment. The system includes a physical and electromagnetic modeling operation that is interactive with the environmental information derived from the actual environment, either historically or in “real-time” as the monitoring process occurs.

A first client station receives from an access point an indication of whether angular information is to be included in feedback information in a range measurement session. The first client station transmits a null data packet (NDP) as part of an uplink multi-user (MU) PHY transmission that also includes simultaneous transmissions by one or more second client stations of one or more other respective NDPs to the access point as part of the range measurement session. The first client station receives a downlink physical layer (PHY) data unit from the access point that includes respective downlink feedback frames for the first client station and the one or more second client stations. When angular information is to be included in the feedback, a downlink feedback frame for the first client station includes angular information.

Disclosed is a positioning device, a position measurement server, and a position measurement system capable of estimating a relatively accurate position on the basis of a signal transmitted from a terminal in a mobile communication system. Particularly, the positioning device acquires channel configuration information of an uplink signal of a target terminal, receives the uplink signal of the target terminal through one or more uplink signal reception units on the basis of the channel configuration information, measures information on the received uplink signal, and transmits the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal to the position measurement server, and the position measurement server receives the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal from the positioning device and calculates a position of the target terminal on the basis of the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal.

Disclosed is a positioning device, a position measurement server, and a position measurement system capable of estimating a relatively accurate position on the basis of a signal transmitted from a terminal in a mobile communication system. Particularly, the positioning device acquires channel configuration information of an uplink signal of a target terminal, receives the uplink signal of the target terminal through one or more uplink signal reception units on the basis of the channel configuration information, measures information on the received uplink signal, and transmits the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal to the position measurement server, and the position measurement server receives the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal from the positioning device and calculates a position of the target terminal on the basis of the information on the uplink signal of the target terminal.

Methods and apparatus for improving a procedure based upon wireless determination of a location of agents and equipment during a procedure and quantifying conditions in an environment via automated sensors. The present invention provides apparatus and methods for wireless designation of a position of agents and equipment relative to each other based upon wireless communications amongst multiple wireless transceivers combined with ongoing monitoring of conditions present in a facility. The transceivers may be portions of nodes, and nodes may form self-verifying arrays. A user interface may provide an augmented reality view of positions of all or some the providers and equipment and condition quantifying sensors.

A method for managing transmission of a location of a first geo-tag capable of communicating with a second geo-tag, the tags being classified in several respective categories, the first tag being associated with a first category. The method includes implementing following steps in the first tag: a. detecting a proximity between the first geo-tag and the second geo-tag; b. obtaining the category associated with the second tag; c. transmitting, to the second tag, a request to transfer management of the transmission of the location of the first tag, if the obtained category belongs to a second tag category.

A method for managing transmission of a location of a first geo-tag capable of communicating with a second geo-tag, the tags being classified in several respective categories, the first tag being associated with a first category. The method includes implementing following steps in the first tag: a. detecting a proximity between the first geo-tag and the second geo-tag; b. obtaining the category associated with the second tag; c. transmitting, to the second tag, a request to transfer management of the transmission of the location of the first tag, if the obtained category belongs to a second tag category.

A method and device for determining a time of arrival (TOA), a terminal device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: determining a detection start time on a correlation waveform based on a leading edge detection threshold; determining a noise threshold on the correlation waveform, and determining a quasi-TOA according to the detection start time; and determining the TOA according to data information in a target area of the correlation waveform and the noise threshold, where the target area is determined based on the quasi-TOA and a detection length.

A method and system for positioning an indoor autonomous mobile robot is disclosed in this application, which includes: indoor layout of moving paths and indoor relative position information of the moving path are obtained by a vision sensor; visual positioning is performed by a visual locator on indoor image data collected by the visual sensor to obtain the first position information; and second position information of a UWB location tag is obtained and solved by an UWB locator; the first position information and the second position information are fused by an adaptive Kalman filter, to obtain final positioning information of the autonomous mobile robot. After fusion, the UWB locator can correct the accumulated error caused by visual positioning, and at the same time, visual positioning can smooth measured data of the UWB locator to make up for deficiencies.

A computer-implemented method for precision hyperbolic location fingerprinting, the method comprising, at a computing system, the steps of: (a) receiving measured RSSI values associated with a plurality of fixedly-positioned sensor devices, wherein the plurality of fixedly-positioned sensor devices are stationary in known locations in a 2D environment and caused to transit radio signals to each other and measure characteristics of the received radio signals; (b) generating a raw RSSI fingerprint for each sensor device based on the measured RSSI values; (c) generating a log-ratio RSSI fingerprint between a pair of sensor devices; (d) normalizing the raw RSSI fingerprint and normalizing the log-ratio RSSI fingerprint; (e) combining the raw RSSI fingerprint and the log-ratio RSSI fingerprint to form a fusion RSSI fingerprint; and (f) repeating steps (a) to (e) at predetermined intervals to enhance prediction accuracy of regional fingerprints within the environment.