Patent ID: 8035490

Claim:
A method of establishing peer controllers in a spatial region of a sensor network, the method comprising the steps of: a computer recording an assignment of the spatial region to a plurality of electronic controllers; the computer recording which individual ones of the plurality of electronic controllers in the spatial region are coupled to a respective one of a plurality of reader/sensors in the spatial region; the computer transmitting an address of each of the plurality of electronic controllers to every other of the plurality of controllers in the spatial region; and initializing communication among the plurality of electronic controllers in the spatial region thereby establishing peer controllers; one of the plurality of reader/sensors observing an event in the spatial region; the observant reader/sensor transmitting tag data and data of the event to its respective peer controller; the respective peer controller determining that the event is in a list of preexisting events; the respective peer controller not reporting the event to a higher processing domain; and the respective peer controller not reporting the event to any other controller.