Patent ID: 9520250
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H01H,H04R,H04W,Y02B,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving at a central controller mobile device signals from one or more mobile wireless devices located in a building, processing the proximity indications to identify aspects of the proximity indications representative of a measure of proximity taking place between one or more people and a mobile wireless device of the one or more mobile wireless devices, providing at the central controller for the each of the one or more mobile wireless devices a corresponding mobile device location estimate; generating for the each mobile wireless device of the one or more mobile wireless devices a corresponding weight based at least in part on the corresponding proximity estimate; weighing for the each of the one or more mobile wireless devices the corresponding mobile device location estimate according to the corresponding weight, and thereby determining at least in part an occupancy estimate for a first region from a plurality of regions within the building, generating at the central controller one or more output signals, transmitting from the central controller the one or more output signals.