Patent ID: 11864058
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A system for tracking cables comprising:
a plurality of tape nodes, each tape node attached to a respective cable and comprising:
a first type of wireless communication system, and
an identifier associated with the respective cable;

one or more gateway nodes, each gateway node associated with a fixed location and comprising the first type of wireless communication system and a second type of wireless communication system, wherein each gateway node is configured to communicate with one or more of the plurality of tape nodes using the first type of wireless communication system and communicate with a server using the second type of wireless communication system;
the server; and
a database storing the association of each identifier of the plurality of tape nodes with a respective cable, the fixed location of each of the one or more gateway nodes, and a history of location data for each of the plurality of tape nodes, wherein
the server determines a location of each of the plurality of tape nodes based on each tape node wirelessly communicating with one of the one or more gateway nodes, the location of each of the plurality of tape nodes corresponding to a location of the respective cable.