An aircraft avionics unit that enhances the emergency location capability of existing Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs). This aircraft avionics unit can be integrated with a wide range of existing ELTs and their existing aircraft interfaces by changes to a small number of the signal wires between the ELT and the aircraft systems and the addition of limited inputs from aircraft systems. This system requires no changes to either the current ELTs or the associated aircraft systems. The integrated system maintains the current ELT concept of operations while providing significantly enhanced ELT activation triggering with a low-impact, low-cost approach.

Administration and consistency of proximity beacon naming within one or more venues is improved by use of a mobile device to discover ranges of the beacons, and upon discovery, determining a location of a mobile computing device within the venue; receiving at the location by the mobile computing device one or more identifiers from one or more proximity beacons within range of the location; and updating by the mobile device at least one of the one or more identifiers according to a proximity beacon naming policy.

A system can be used with a drone delivery service that facilitates a service delivery via at least one drone delivery device. The system includes a code generator configured to generate beacon data that identifies a subscriber. A beacon generator is configured to generate a wireless homing beacon that indicates the beacon data, wherein the wireless homing beacon is detectable by the at least one drone delivery device to facilitate the service delivery to the subscriber by the drone delivery device at a location selected by the subscriber and a network interface is configured to communicate via a network. The system receives delivery image data captured after the service delivery by the drone delivery device.

A system can be used with a drone delivery service that facilitates a service delivery via at least one drone delivery device. The system includes a code generator configured to generate beacon data that identifies a subscriber. A beacon generator is configured to generate a wireless homing beacon that indicates the beacon data, wherein the wireless homing beacon is detectable by the at least one drone delivery device to facilitate the service delivery to the subscriber by the drone delivery device at a location selected by the subscriber and a network interface is configured to communicate via a network. The system receives delivery image data captured after the service delivery by the drone delivery device.

Embodiments provide a positioning method, an assistant site, and a system, to improve positioning accuracy of a mobile terminal. The method according to the embodiments of the present invention includes: generating, by an assistant site, a downlink assisted positioning signal; and sending, by the assistant site, the downlink assisted positioning signal to a mobile terminal. The downlink assisted positioning signal can enable a base station to determine position information of the mobile terminal based on a measurement result obtained by the mobile terminal by measuring the downlink assisted positioning signal.

The vehicle position detecting system includes a beacon installed position recognizing section that recognizes an installed position of a beacon based on installed position information when a beacon signal including the installed position information of the beacon transmitted from the beacon is received by a beacon receiver of a vehicle traveling in a parking garage, a vehicle traveling state recognizing section that recognizes a traveling state of the vehicle, a traveling range estimating section that estimates a traveling locus L of the vehicle from a time point t1 at which the beacon signal is received, based on the traveling state of the vehicle that is recognized by the vehicle traveling state recognizing section, and a vehicle position estimating section that estimates a position of the vehicle based on the installed position of the beacon and the traveling locus L.

The vehicle position detecting system includes a beacon installed position recognizing section that recognizes an installed position of a beacon based on installed position information when a beacon signal including the installed position information of the beacon transmitted from the beacon is received by a beacon receiver of a vehicle traveling in a parking garage, a vehicle traveling state recognizing section that recognizes a traveling state of the vehicle, a traveling range estimating section that estimates a traveling locus L of the vehicle from a time point t1 at which the beacon signal is received, based on the traveling state of the vehicle that is recognized by the vehicle traveling state recognizing section, and a vehicle position estimating section that estimates a position of the vehicle based on the installed position of the beacon and the traveling locus L.

Systems and methods for beacon device fleet management are provided. One example system includes a plurality of beacon devices, a plurality of mobile computing devices, a fleet management system, and a fleet owner computing devices. One example method includes receiving, by the fleet management system, a device status request from the fleet owner computing device. The fleet management system determines one or more operational statuses of beacon devices owned by the fleet owner and transmits data indicative of the one or more operational statuses to the fleet owner computing device. The operational statuses can include a current detection status (e.g., online or offline), a location status, a power source status, and/or other operational parameters.

Systems and methods for beacon device fleet management are provided. One example system includes a plurality of beacon devices, a plurality of mobile computing devices, a fleet management system, and a fleet owner computing devices. One example method includes receiving, by the fleet management system, a device status request from the fleet owner computing device. The fleet management system determines one or more operational statuses of beacon devices owned by the fleet owner and transmits data indicative of the one or more operational statuses to the fleet owner computing device. The operational statuses can include a current detection status (e.g., online or offline), a location status, a power source status, and/or other operational parameters.

A method of generating binary positioning tags includes the following steps: generating a pseudo random sequence; circularly shifting the pseudo random sequence and sequentially filling in one of a plurality of odd rows and a plurality of even rows of a binary matrix, wherein a size of the binary matrix is MN; filling a complement sequence of the pseudo random sequence in the other one of the plurality of odd rows and the plurality of even rows; and retrieving a binary submatrix having a size of IJ from the binary matrix according to a relative position of a positioning point to be used as a positioning tag corresponding to the positioning point, wherein I is smaller than M, and J is smaller than N. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a positioning tag that is highly secure, arrangement-unique, and easy to obtain and analyze.