Patent ID: 9575478
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G01S,G05B,H05B

Claim:
1. A method of configuring a set of fixed devices of a structure, comprising: loading a structure floor plan to a mobile computing device, wherein the structure floor plan is associated with the structure, and wherein the structure floor plan provides approximate placement of the set of fixed devices within the structure, but does not include complete information of which fixed devices are placed at one or more approximate placement locations within the structure; communicating, by the mobile computing device, with one or more of the set of fixed devices, wherein the set of fixed devices each have a fixed location within the structure; communicating, by each of the one or more of the set of fixed devices, a device identifier and a proximity dependent information of the fixed device back to the mobile computing device, wherein the proximity dependent information of each of the one or more of the set of fixed devices allows the mobile computing device to estimate a proximate location of each of the one or more of the set of fixed devices; placing, by the mobile computing device, each of the one or more of the set of fixed devices on the structure floor plan based at least in part on the proxmity dependent information, wherein the placing supplements the structure floor plan with information about which fixed devices are placed at which of the one or more approximate placement locations of the loaded structure floor plan of the structure; and providing an in-range list of fixed devices on a user-interface of the mobile computing device based on the estimated proximate location of each of the one or more of the set of fixed devices, wherein the user interface allows a user to select a fixed device from the list, and further, communicate a command to the fixed device, wherein the fixed device provides a user-observable feedback in response to being selected, wherein observable feedback allows the user to identify and confirm the placement of the fixed device.