System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9448072
APP PUB NO 20090043504A1
SERIAL NO

12187067

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A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (collectively “trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from any number of sources utilizing any number of tracking methods (e.g., inertial navigation and signal-based methods) may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application may generate position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application may further use information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including, for example, 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 and/or compass data if and when available, and with GPS, if and when available.

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TRX SYSTEMS INC6411 IVY LANE SUITE 510 GREENBELT MD 20770

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bandyopadhyay, Amrit Washington, US 16 1571
Blankenship, Gilmer Washington, US 7 793
Funk, Benjamin E Hanover, US 21 1545
Hakim, Daniel Silver Spring, US 17 941
Kohn, Eric Asher Washington, US 5 846
Teolis, Carole A Glenn Dale, US 7 1278

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