Patent ID: 9357254
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G07C,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system for providing awareness in an environment, the system comprising: an environment selected from the group of multi-unit hospitality environments, educational campuses, hospital campuses, and office buildings; a spatial array of set-top boxes, each set-top box being associated with a room in the environment, each set-top box having an identification including a room identifier; each set-top box of the spatial array including: a data packet associated with the proximate wireless-enabled interactive device, the data packet including at least one set-top box identification, a corresponding signal strength identification indicating the strength of the set-top box identification beacon signal, and a proximate wireless-enabled interactive device identification; a spatial array of wireless routers disposed in the environment, each wireless router configured to receive the data packet from the proximate wireless-enabled interactive device and forward the data packet; a server located within the environment and in communication with the vertical and horizontal array of wireless routers, the server including: the location of the proximate wireless-enabled interactive device being determined following communication from the vertical and horizontal array of set-top boxes to the proximate wireless-enabled interactive device to the vertical and horizontal array of wireless routers to the server.