Patent ID: 8787961
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A safety and tracking system, comprising: a master or master control unit that includes signal intensity indicators to indicate a relative strength of a received signal, a numerical indicator that indicates an identity of a tracked receiving unit, a plurality of manual control buttons that provide input data to said master control unit, a plurality of indicator lights with a sounder to display various tracking functions, a controlled gain antenna array that exchanges, sends and receives said input data, a transceiver that provides a communications link between said master control unit and said tracked receiving unit and a microprocessor that manages said transceiver, said controlled antenna array, said signal intensity indicator, said numerical indicator, said manual control buttons, and said indicator lights; and one or more target or locator tags that serve as said tracked receiving units to said master control unit that include a panic button to send said received signal to said master control unit, an indicator light with a sounder that illuminates when said input data from said master control unit is received, an antenna that exchanges, sends and receives said input data, a transceiver and a microprocessor to coordinate said input data to said master control unit, and wherein said master control unit includes software composed of system kernel that performs high-level task function management for ISM (industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) radio bands) radio frequency selection, ISM radio RSSI (received signal strength indicator) detection, antenna gain management, said locator tag pairing and unpairing, signal threshold management, alarm signal detection and processing, RSSI indication, said locator tag indication and said sounder indication and will not cross talk with other locator tags.