Patent ID: 9197843
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for concurrently identifying, locating, and commissioning a plurality of devices, the apparatus comprising: a geolocation device, configured to provide a positional datum indicating a position of said geolocation device; a video recording device, coupled to said geolocation device, configured receive said positional datum, and configured to record and process a plurality of video images of the plurality of devices and configured to determine identification information and a geolocation corresponding to each of the plurality of devices, wherein said geolocation is determined by combining said positional datum, known dimensions of items within said plurality of video images, and a location of said each of the plurality of devices relative to said video recording device, and wherein said plurality of video images comprises unique encoded luminous transmissions simultaneously transmitted from said each of the plurality of devices; and a gateway device, coupled to said video recording device and the plurality of devices, configured to receive said identification information, and configured to commission said each of the plurality of devices onto a network.