公开(公告)号：US20210143902A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-13

申请号：US16678409

申请日：2019-11-08

Applicant: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

Inventor： Sean Connolly ,  Mark W. Duron ,  Jimmy Chabra

IPC: H04B7/26 ,  G06K7/10 ,  G06K19/07

Abstract: Systems and methods to co-locate RFID readers with in-band sensor networks, such as LoRa sensor networks, are disclosed herein. An example arrangement is a co-located device that includes a dual-mode transceiver configured to communicate with targets operating in a first protocol (e.g., RFID) and other targets operating in a second protocol (e.g., LoRa). The example arrangement includes a dual-mode controller that operates the dual-mode transceiver to communicate via the first protocol during a first time period while disabling communication via the second protocol and to communicate via the second protocol in a second time period while disabling communication via the first protocol.