The invention discloses a system and method for validating a wireless beacon location stored in a wireless beacon location record is actually proximate to the true location of the wireless beacon. The method includes: (a) receiving a wireless beacon location report with a wireless beacon identifier and a validation location; (b) correlating the wireless beacon location report with a wireless beacon location record by determining whether the beacon identifier in the wireless beacon location report matches the beacon identifier of a record in a plurality of wireless beacon location records; (c) determining whether the validation location received in the wireless beacon location report is proximal to the beacon location stored in the correlated wireless beacon location record, thereupon designating the wireless beacon location stored in the correlated wireless beacon location record as validated.

A tracking device, a battery charger, and a tracking method thereof are provided. The method, adopted by a tracking device, includes: upon being attached to a battery charger, scanning, by the tracking device, for a first radio environment; and transmitting, by the tracking device, a request for setting the scanned first radio environment as a home zone to a monitoring device.

A non-time of flight or time of arrival position location system for accurate determination of a user's location in an enclosed, indoor, or covered environment can include a number of beacons mounted in an arrangement within the environment. Each of the beacons is mounted in a known location and transmits a broadcast signal containing a unique identifier that identifies the originating beacon. A handheld electronic device including a receiver and a communicably coupled processor can receive broadcast signals from at least some of the number of beacons, iteratively determine a vector quantity corresponding to each of the received signals, and sum the resultant vector quantities to determine an updated position. The iterative process can be repeated until consecutive iterations yield an updated position that falls within a defined threshold.

In an aspect, a network component (e.g., BS, server, etc.) obtains measurement information associated with uplink signal(s) from UE(s), with the uplink signal(s) having reciprocity with one or more downlink beams of wireless node(s) (e.g., TRP, reference UE, etc.). The network component determines (e.g., generates or refines) a measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model based on the measurement information. The network component provides the measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model to a target UE. The target UE receives at least one signal (e.g., PRS) on the one or more downlink beams from the wireless node(s). The target UE processes the at least one signal (e.g., predicts target UE location) based at least in part on the measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model.

A network device stores a radio map comprising map data configured to enable radio-based positioning within a geographic area. The radio map is associated with a plurality of instances of quality information, with each instance of quality information corresponding to a respective location within the geographic area. The network device receives a quality information request corresponding to a geographic region within the geographic area. The quality information request is associated with an entity. Based on a determination of whether a contribution by the entity to a portion of the map data that corresponds to the geographic region satisfies one or more significance criteria, the network device either provides or withholds quality information corresponding to the geographic region.

An apparatus obtains a set of radio data comprising signal strength related values for radio signals transmitted by a transmitter with an association of each signal strength related value with a representation of a geographical location. The apparatus applies a frequency transform to the obtained set of radio data to obtain transform coefficients, each transform coefficient comprising a transform index and an associated transform value. The apparatus selects a subset of transform indices having more significant transform values than the remaining transform indices and compresses the transform indices by encoding each transform index exploiting a probability of occurrence of an index value of a respective transform index. The same or another apparatus decodes the compressed transform indices again for use in position operations.

An edge device includes a first antenna array, control circuitry, and a sensing radar communicatively coupled to the control circuitry, where the sensing radar senses a surrounding area of the edge device. The control circuitry concurrently communicates two different beams of radio frequency (RF) signals to two user equipment (UEs) from two portions of the first antenna array based on the sensed surrounding area of the edge device by the sensing radar. The sensing radar and the first antenna array employ mutually isolated frequencies for the sensing and the communication, respectively.

An edge device includes an antenna array and control circuitry. The control circuitry tracks a position of user equipment (UE) in motion in terms of a current distance and a current angle from the edge device and executes beamforming to communicate a beam of radio frequency (RF) signal to the UE. The beam of RF signal is communicated in a specific radiation pattern based on the track of the position of the UE. Also, the beam of RF signal has a signal strength greater than a threshold. The control circuitry further calibrates the specific radiation pattern of the antenna array to further communicate the beam of RF signal in a specific beam shape that is suitable for a defined period.

Disclosed is an approach for obtaining fingerprints that have been collected by at least one mobile device for supporting a positioning of other mobile devices, each fingerprint comprising at least results of measurements on radio signals of at least one communication node at a particular location, communication node names proximate to the particular location, and an area identifier for the particular location; receiving a positioning request that contains at least a multiset of communication node names; selecting a radio model, wherein the radio model selected is based at least in part on the fingerprint and/or the number of communication node names proximate to a fingerprint which match the node names in the positioning request that contains at least a multiset of communication node names; and generating data for a feedback for a user of the at least one computing device based on the selected radio model.

An edge device includes an antenna array and control circuitry. The control circuitry tracks a position of user equipment (UE) in motion in terms of a current distance and a current angle from the edge device and executes beamforming to communicate a beam of radio frequency (RF) signal to the UE. The beam of RF signal is communicated in a specific radiation pattern based on the track of the position of the UE. Also, the beam of RF signal has a signal strength greater than a threshold. The control circuitry further calibrates the specific radiation pattern of the antenna array to further communicate the beam of RF signal in a specific beam shape that is suitable for a defined period.