Patent number: 9628962
Using computed travel times to intelligently attenuate beacon transmission
Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
Field of technology: Computer Hardware, Computer Software
Patent granted on: Tue, 18 Apr 2017
Abstract
Determining a beacon interval in which a device, located within a venue having a plurality of predefined zones, sends a beacon to a system for tracking the location of the device within the venue. Each of the predefined zones has a zone-specific beacon interval which is updated.