Patent ID: 11963037
Assignee: SILICON LABORATORIES INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A wireless locator mounted at a fixed location in a facility that facilitates determining a location of a nearby wireless asset within the facility, comprising:
a plurality of antennas configured in an antenna array;
at least one wireless transceiver that receives a location signal from the nearby wireless asset and that takes a plurality of samples from said location signal including a set of samples for each of said plurality of antennas; and
a processor that compresses said plurality of samples to generate location information associated with the nearby wireless asset, wherein said processor compresses said plurality of samples using at least one of multiple compression methods including averaging, bit reduction, phase angle only selection, and accumulation and selection;
wherein said at least one wireless transceiver is configured to wirelessly transmit said location information to another wireless locator mounted at another fixed location within the facility.