Patent ID: 9361796
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G08G

Claim Text:
1. A system for monitoring people and/or vehicles by using existing personal portable communication devices, the system comprising a central management computer; a plurality of acquiring devices for acquiring identifiers of transmitter devices by radio frequency in the 2.4 GHz band, which transmitter devices are the existing personal portable communication devices carried by people and/or vehicles primarily for use independent of the system, the acquiring devices being connected to the central management computer for sending the acquired identifiers of the transmitter devices in the form of tags for incorporation in a database; and wherein each acquiring device comprises a short-range multi-format transducer in the 2.4 GHz band, at least one transmission and reception antenna, a processor for operation and encryption, configured for the extraction and encryption of the exclusive public part of the Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the transmitter devices as the identifier of the transmitter devices in an encrypted, unique tag, a long-range telecommunications device and an electrical power source; and wherein the central management computer comprises the database of the encrypted, unique tags with acquisition times and geographical positions of the corresponding acquiring devices.