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Personnel and asset tracking method and apparatus
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In this paper, the authors present a monitoring system for locating and tracking persons and assets in an awareness area, which includes a central server (10), a communication network to which the central server is connected, a tag associated with each person and asset (55) to be tracked, and at least one monitoring system (25) to locate and track tags (50, 52) within a sub-area of the awareness area.Abstract:
A personnel and asset tracking system for locating and tracking personnel and assets throughout an awareness area (2). The system includes a central server (10), a communication network to which the central server (10) is connected, a tag (50, 52) associated with each person (51) and asset (55) to be tracked, and at least one monitoring system (25) to locate and track tags (50, 52) within a sub-area (4) of the awareness area (2). The tags (50, 52) include a transmitter for periodically transmitting a unique identifier for each person (51) and asset (55). The monitoring system includes a router (14) connected to the communication network, at least one intermediate location processor (16) that transmits location messages to the router (14), and at least one receiver node (18) connected to each intermediate location processor (16), such that when the receiver node receives a transmission from the tag (50, 52), the receiver node (18) creates and sends a location message to the intermediate location processor (16), the intermediate location processor (16) transmits the location message to the router (14), and the router (14) transmits the location message to the central server (10) over the network.read more
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