Patent ID: 6497656
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: A61B,H04B,H04Q,H04W,Y10S

Abstract:
A communications system comprising:a broadband subsystem comprising at least one UWB node including a first UWB transceiver and at least one application node linked to said UWB node by a broadband link; a wireless subsystem comprising at least one remote communicator, said remote communicator including a second UWB transceiver, said first and second UWB transceivers configured to communicate with each other via an UWB communications link; said communications system being configured to simultaneously determine via one transmitted signal over the UWB communications link the position in space of a remote object, telemeter data related to said remote object to a node of a local area network, and process said data related to said remote object on one application node of said local area network; said communications system being further configured to track the position of said remote object as said object moves through space.