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US08712686B2 System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors
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用于在室内和室外定位,跟踪和/或监控人员和/或资产的状态的系统和方法
- Patent Title: System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors
- Patent Title (中): 用于在室内和室外定位,跟踪和/或监控人员和/或资产的状态的系统和方法
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Application No.: US13301491Application Date: 2011-11-21
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Publication No.: US08712686B2Publication Date: 2014-04-29
- Inventor: Amrit Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Hakim , Benjamin E. Funk , Eric Asher Kohn , Carole A. Teolis , Gilmer Blankenship
- Applicant: Amrit Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Hakim , Benjamin E. Funk , Eric Asher Kohn , Carole A. Teolis , Gilmer Blankenship
- Applicant Address: US MD Greenbelt
- Assignee: TRX Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: TRX Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Greenbelt
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Main IPC: G01C21/00
- IPC: G01C21/00 ; G01C21/16 ; A62B5/00 ; G01S19/48

Abstract:
A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (“trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from various sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic data, compass data, and/or with GPS, if and when available.
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