An interrogation device, for locating a wireless device, includes a receiver and digital processing circuitry. The receiver includes one or more receiver stages having adjustable gains, and is configured to receive from the wireless device a signal that carries a packet including a direction-finding field, wherein, during reception of the direction-finding field, multiple different temporal sections of the received signal traverse different wireless channels due to switching among different antennas in the interrogation device or in the wireless device and thus have multiple different received-signal levels. The digital processing circuitry is configured, based on the multiple received temporal sections of the signal during reception of the direction-finding field, to (i) adapt the adjustable gains of the receiver stages and (ii) estimate a position of the wireless device.

A split architecture is disclosed for determining the location of a wireless device in a heterogeneous wireless communications environment. A detector within the device or another component of the environment receives signals including parameters for a localization signal of the device. The parameters describe known in advance signals within the signals. Additional metadata including each frame start of the signals and assistance data and auxiliary information are also received. The known in advance signals are detected based on the parameters of the localization signal. Samples extracted from the known in advance signals are then processed and compressed and sent with other collect data to a locate server remote from the detector. The location server uses that information as well as similar information about the environment to calculate the location of the device, as well as perform tracking and navigation of the device, and report such results to the environment.

Provided is a control device, including a wireless communication unit that has at least two antenna elements and performs wireless communication with another communication device, and a control unit that controls a controlled device on the basis of a direction of the another communication device, the direction being estimated on the basis of the wireless communication, in which the control unit causes the controlled device to perform a given operation when the direction of the another communication device is within a prescribed range.

A split architecture is disclosed for determining the location of a wireless device in a heterogeneous wireless communications environment. A detector within the device or another component of the environment receives signals including parameters for a localization signal of the device. The parameters describe known in advance signals within the signals. Additional metadata including each frame start of the signals and assistance data and auxiliary information are also received. The known in advance signals are detected based on the parameters of the localization signal. Samples extracted from the known in advance signals are then processed and compressed and sent with other collect data to a locate server remote from the detector. The location server uses that information as well as similar information about the environment to calculate the location of the device, as well as perform tracking and navigation of the device, and report such results to the environment.

A dual band radio frequency signal acquisition and source location system, provided with a steerable phased array antenna operable in a first and a second radio frequency band. A digital signal processor electrically connected to the steerable phased array antenna is configured to control steering of an antenna beam of the steerable phased array antenna and apply frequency time division multiplexing to radio frequency signaling in the first and the second radio frequency bands. In particular, the first frequency band may be 2.4 GHz Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy, and the second frequency band may be 900 MHz passive UHF RFID.

Techniques for identifying an orientation for an antenna in a wireless communication device. A plurality of estimates of antenna gain are determined for an antenna associated with a wireless access point (AP), the plurality of estimates of antenna gain relating to a plurality of wireless stations (STAs) associated with the AP. An orientation for the antenna is determined based on the plurality of estimates of antenna gain and a plurality of properties for the antenna.

An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to sample an angular response of a uniform antenna array uniformly in a normalized angular frequency range to obtain a set of angular samples, and to reconstruct an angular response of the uniform antenna array based on the set of angular samples and at least one Dirichlet kernel.

A method and system are presented for determining properties of an electromagnetic waveform. The method comprises: providing measured parametric EM field data indicative of measured vector components of electric and magnetic fields of an EM waveform measured in at least one instance of time; providing reference data indicative of a plurality of reference data sets, each data set comprising: a reference steering vector parameters indicative of a certain respective direction of arrival (DOA), and a corresponding parametric EM field reference data including reference vector components of an electric and magnetic field pertaining to a wavefront propagating with the DOA of the corresponding reference steering vector parameters; determining a matching score between the measured parametric EM field data and the parametric EM field reference data of one or more of the reference data sets; and in case the matching score of a certain reference data set complies with a certain threshold condition, determining that said measured parametric EM field data corresponds to said EM waveform having a single EM wavefront thereby enabling to discriminate between measured EM waveforms having a single wavefront and measured EM waveforms having multiple wavefronts.

A method for performing a directional operation includes: obtaining an operation directing to a target operation device; determining a direction of the operation, determining the target operation device matched with the direction of the operation; and performing the operation on the target operation device.

A method for performing a directional operation includes: obtaining an operation directing to a target operation device; determining a direction of the operation, determining the target operation device matched with the direction of the operation; and performing the operation on the target operation device.