Patent ID: 8331862

Claim:
A radio frequency addressable sensor network, comprising: one or more radio frequency addressable sensors; one or more wireless sensor readers coupled to a communications network; and one or more end user devices coupled to the communications network; wherein the one or more wireless sensor readers communicate with the one or more radio frequency addressable sensors to obtain sensor data for transmission over the communications network; wherein a wireless sensor reader comprises: at least one antenna configured for communication with the one or more radio frequency addressable sensors, a controller, and a network communications module coupled to the controller, the network communications module having an interface for coupling to a communications network, wherein each wireless sensor reader is configured for receiving sensor data from the one or more radio frequency addressable sensors; wherein each of the one or more wireless sensor readers includes a profile stored in a memory thereof, the profile including a class designation, and wherein each of the one or more wireless sensor readers is configured to form a class-based network for network communications with other wireless sensor readers that have the same class designation.