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

Claim 12:
13. A wireless location system for locating at least one wireless asset located in an area enclosed by a facility, comprising:
a plurality of wireless locators mounted at fixed locations distributed in the area, each comprising a controller, at least one wireless transceiver and a plurality of antennas configured in an antenna array, and each capable of wirelessly communicating with at least one other wireless locator for conveying location information of the at least one wireless asset;
a central processing system configured to communicate with at least one of said wireless locators for gathering said location information from each of said plurality of wireless locators;
wherein said at least one wireless transceiver of each of said plurality of wireless locators is configured to receive a wireless location signal from a nearby wireless asset and takes a plurality of samples from said wireless location signal including a set of samples for each of said plurality of antennas; and
wherein said controller of each of said plurality of wireless locators compresses said plurality of samples to generate said location information of said nearby wireless asset, and wherein said controller 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.