A method and device for identifying pressure sensors of a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) of a motor vehicle. The method includes emission of a sensor activation signal, receiving of signals from at least two different sensors following activation, attenuation and amplification of the signals received, determination of a value indicative of the power of the signals received, and identification of the spatial position of at least one sensor on the basis of values indicative of the power of the signal received. A device configured as a TPMS tool is used for implementing the method.

A communication unit includes: a plurality of wireless communication units configured to perform wireless communication with another communication device; and a control unit configured to estimate a relative position of the other communication device relative to the communication unit, wherein the control unit estimates the relative position of the other communication device on the basis of a plurality of distance measurement values indicating a distance between each of the plurality of wireless communication units and the other communication device obtained by each of the plurality of wireless communication units performing wireless communication with the other communication device, and a position characteristic including a position of each of the plurality of wireless communication units in the communication unit.

The invention provide a system for locating an object in a volume of space, comprising: a communication device (CD) of the object disposed in the volume of space, wherein the communication device comprises a CD radio frequency (RF) receiver, a CD RF transmitter, and a CD infrared (IR) receiver; a first electrical device of a plurality of electrical devices disposed in the volume of space, wherein the first electrical device comprises at least one first sensor, a first RF receiver, a first IR transmitter, and a first RF transmitter, wherein the first RF transmitter broadcasts a first communication signal, wherein the first IR transmitter broadcasts a second communication signal, and wherein the first RF receiver receives, in response to the first communication signal received by the CD RF receiver and the second communication signal received by the CD IR receiver, a third communication signal broadcast by the CD RF transmitter of the communication device; and a controller communicably coupled to the plurality of electrical devices, wherein the controller receives a fourth communication signal sent by the first RF transmitter of the first electrical device, wherein the fourth communication signal comprises a first identification of the object and a second identification of the first electrical device, wherein the fourth communication signal is associated with a signal strength of the third communication signal received by the first RF receiver of the first electrical device.

A method for operating a network node (100) in a wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises transmitting at least one beamformed signal (20-27). Each one of the at least one beamformed signal (20-27) is indicative of a respective positioning information. The respective positioning information is indicative of a respective virtual reference point (40-47) which is offset from a position of a transmit point (50) of the wireless communication network used for transmitting the at least one beamformed signal (20-27). The beamformed signal (20-27) is suitable for enabling a positioning measurement of a wireless communication device (200).

A method for operating a network node (100) in a wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises transmitting at least one beamformed signal (20-27). Each one of the at least one beamformed signal (20-27) is indicative of a respective positioning information. The respective positioning information is indicative of a respective virtual reference point (40-47) which is offset from a position of a transmit point (50) of the wireless communication network used for transmitting the at least one beamformed signal (20-27). The beamformed signal (20-27) is suitable for enabling a positioning measurement of a wireless communication device (200).

Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a position estimation entity provides assistance data to sidelink anchors and a UE. The assistance data may include a set of proximity-based sidelink positioning reference signal (PRS) pre-configurations for on-demand PRS position estimation. The target UE transmits a sidelink PRS trigger to trigger an on-demand sidelink PRS position estimation session with a dynamic sidelink anchor group, the sidelink PRS trigger configured to indicate a sidelink zone associated with the UE and a proximity requirement for participation in the on-demand sidelink PRS position estimation. At least one sidelink anchor determines that the proximity requirement to the sidelink zone is satisfied, selects a proximity-based sidelink PRS pre-configuration based on a dynamic proximity to the sidelink zone, and performs a sidelink PRS exchange with the UE.

A method is provided for localizing mobile tags using a system including a plurality of anchors located at known locations, the method including: transmitting a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) localization packets using respective anchors of the plurality of anchors, in which each of the plurality of localization packets is transmitted by a respective anchor of the plurality of anchors at a different respective delay time; and transmitting an update UWB packet with either an anchor of the plurality of anchors that does not transmit one of the localization packets, or with a mobile tag, in which the localization packets include no payloads, the update packet includes a payload, and in which successive ones of the plurality of localization packets and the update packet overlap with each other in time. A system for localizing mobile tags is also provided.

According to one embodiment, an information collection system comprises a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The transmitter emits a signal. The receiver receives the signal. The processor calculates a distance between the transmitter and the receiver from a strength of the signal received by the receiver. The processor calculating the distance between the transmitter and the receiver from the strength of the signal for each of the signals received during a first interval, and using an average distance as the distance between the transmitter and the receiver, the average distance being obtained by averaging the plurality of calculated distances.

Disclosed are techniques for receiving reference radio frequency (RF) signals for positioning estimation. In an aspect, a receiver device receives, from a transmission point, a reference RF signal on a wireless channel receives, from a positioning entity, an indication that the reference RF signal serves as a source for a quasi-collocation (QCL) type(s) for positioning reference RF signals received by the receiver device from the transmission point on the wireless channel, measures an average delay, a delay spread, or both the average delay and the delay spread of the reference RF signal based on the QCL type(s), receives, from the transmission point, a positioning reference RF signal on the wireless channel, and identifies a time of arrival (ToA) of the positioning reference RF signal based on the measured average delay, the delay spread, or both the average delay and the delay spread of the reference RF signal.

A computer-implemented method for combined indoor and outdoor tracking using a tracking device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment of the method, a fingerprint of radio signals is generated by the device at a location to be determined. The location of the device is determined by applying trained functions to the fingerprint wherein the trained functions have been end-to-end trained using a plurality of fingerprints generated at known locations. Environmental sensor data may be used to predict a lifetime of a component tracked by the tracking device.