Abstract: A flexible tracking device for monitoring a cable is configured to be secured to the cable by bending around the cable at a bending region of the flexible tracking device. The flexible tracking device includes a flexible substrate, a battery, a device layer, a flexible circuit connecting components of the device layer and the battery, and a flexible cover layer on the substrate covering the flexible substrate, the battery, the device layer, and the flexible circuit. The device layer includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a first wireless communication antenna connected to a first wireless communication interface. The flexible tracking device is configured to undergo a bend in the bending region, wherein the bending region does not overlap with components of the device layer that cannot tolerate bending.

Abstract: A wireless sensor device includes a flexible substrate, a cover layer on the flexible substrate, a device layer between the flexible substrate and the cover layer, and a printed circuit board connecting components of the device layer including an electrostatic discharge protected port for connecting an external sensor probe to the wireless sensor device. The device layer includes a processor, a memory, a battery, a first wireless communication system, and one or more onboard sensors; and a printed circuit board connecting components of the device layer comprising an electrostatic discharge protected port for connecting an external sensor probe to the wireless sensor device. The external probe allows for the wireless sensor device to perform sensor readings in environments that are too extreme or hostile to the wireless sensor device, while the wireless sensor device is safely isolated from the extreme or hostile environment.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless sensor networks installation, deployment, maintenance, and operation. A distributed network of wireless tags enable a wide variety of different indoor and outdoor applications to be implemented, including asset finding, workflow automation, and internet-of-things applications. The physical premises environment may be any location in which there are persons, places or things to be monitored, tracked, sensed, or inventoried, or other defined space. The distributed network of wireless tags is associated with a wireless client device that enables a customer to configure and retrieve status data, event data, and sensor data from wireless tags and other components in the physical premises environment. Embodiments utilize different types of network nodes to collect data from the physical premises environment. Examples of the types of data that may be collected by the wireless tags include asset status information, event data, and sensor data.

Abstract: In some implementations, a wireless sensing system may receive sensor data associated with an asset. The sensor data may be associated with a tampering event and the tampering event may include an action performed on the asset. The wireless sensing system may further determine whether the tampering event is performed by an authorized user of the wireless sensing system. The wireless sensing system may further determine whether the tampering event is performed within an authorized location of the wireless sensing system. The wireless sensing system may transmit a notification to a user of the wireless sensing system. The notification may alert the user of the wireless sensing system that the tampering event has occurred.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to wireless sensing nodes, energy harvesting, and energy charging. The disclosure also generally relates to reporting data gathered by the wireless sensing nodes to one or more network services.

Abstract: The disclosure features a method of creating a communications network. In this method, a first tape node includes a first type of wireless communication interface and a second type of wireless communication interface having a longer range than the first type of wireless communication interface. A second tape node includes the first type of wireless communication interface that is operable to communicate with the first tape node over a wireless communication connection established between the first type of wireless communication interfaces of the first and second tape nodes. Over a wireless communication connection, the first tape node sends programmatic code executable by the first tape node to function as a master tape node with respect to the second tape node.

Abstract: A flexible sensor device includes a device layer including at least a first sensor configured to measure sensor data relevant to an object of interest, a flexible electronics layer including flexible circuit connected to the first sensor, a flexible substrate located between the flexible electronics layer and a first adhesive layer, a flexible tape cover that is on the device layer opposite the flexible substrate, the flexible tape cover covering the device layer, and a coupling element, located in a first aperture, the coupling element coupling the first sensor to the object of interest when the sensor device is attached to the object of interest. The first aperture is in one of the flexible substrate and the flexible substrate, overlapping the first sensor and exposing the coupling element to the object of interest.

Abstract: A method for tracking assets in areas of interest includes receiving, by a first node of a wireless sensing system, a first communication and a second communication by a tape node associated with a mobile asset and receiving, by a second node of the wireless sensing system, the first communication and the second communication by the tape node associated with the mobile asset. A direction of movement of the tape node associated with the mobile asset is computed, the direction of movement based at least in part on respective signal strengths of the first communication and the second communication as received by the first node and the second node. Based on the direction of movement, a most likely path of the tape node is determined.

Abstract: A method for multi-phase monitoring, comprising: receiving a first set of data associated with a monitoring agent during a first phase of an itinerary for monitoring an asset; determining the first phase of the itinerary is complete; receiving a second set of data relating to a second phase of the itinerary, the second set of data defining a phase requirement for implementing the second phase; determining an agent capability of the monitoring agent; comparing the agent capability to the phase requirement; and performing an action based on whether the phase requirement is capable of being met by the monitoring agent.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide automated identification techniques that associate at least two unique identifiers of one segment of a segmental multimode wireless flexible product to seamlessly and accurately bridge different identification methodologies to enable advanced real-time tracking of shipment location and status, and other such useful and advanced product and service offerings.

Abstract: A portable device may include a housing sized and shaped to enclose: a power source, a wireless communication module including an antenna and associated transceiver circuitry coupled with the antenna to receive and transmit wireless signals, a human-interaction interface, a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and a processor in communication with the power source, the wireless communication module, and the memory. The housing may be sized and shaped to self-stand when placed at a location. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the portable device to: scan, using the wireless communication module, for ones of the plurality of wireless nodes within operating range of the wireless communication module, receive, in response to the scan, wireless-node data from responding ones of the plurality of wireless nodes, generate a user-interpretable signal based on the wireless-node data; and output, using the human-interaction interface, the user-interpretable signal.

Abstract: A tracking device comprises a flexible belt body configured to loop around a portion of a pallet, e.g., around a center stringer of a pallet. The flexible belt body has a first portion and a second portion configured to be connected. The tracking device further comprises a first region having one or more sensitive electronic components and a second region having one or more durable electronic components and/or electronic components that benefit from exposure during transportation. The tracking device is positioned on the portion of the pallet such that the first region is oriented towards an interior of the pallet and the second region is oriented towards an exterior of the pallet.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods prepare an adhesive tape platform with a battery for disposal at an end of its useful life. The adhesive tape platform determines when it is at the end of its useful life and performs an action to drain remaining battery life of the battery. When remaining life in the battery is less than a threshold level, the adhesive tape platform transmits a ready for disposal notification to an Internet of Things (IOT) system of the adhesive tape platform. The adhesive tape platform may determine its life expectancy and operational phases of the adhesive tape platform and assign battery usage for each of the operational phases such that the battery is depleted at an end of a last one of the operational phases. The adhesive tape platform may activate battery draining circuitry to drain the remaining battery life of the battery.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates in part to a transient wireless communications network that includes a first intelligent node having a processor, a memory communicatively coupled with the processor and storing a predetermined schedule of shipping data for at least one asset, and one or more network communications interfaces to communicate on the transient wireless communications network, the memory storing machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify, based on referencing the predetermined schedule, a second intelligent node of the transient wireless communication network that is available to communicate with the first intelligent node based on a time slot of the predetermined schedule defining communication between intelligent nodes within the network. The processor may further cause the network communication interface to transmit, during the time slot, data, from the first intelligent node to the second intelligent node.

Abstract: A low-cost task specific device system for scheduling tasks that are performed by one or more devices is described. After a preceding task is performed, the performance of a successive task is delayed for a task-specific recharge interval associated with the preceding task. The successive task is performed after the task-specific recharge interval has expired.

Abstract: A system for tracking assets at a location includes an infrastructure node associated with a tracking system located at the location comprising a wireless communication device configured to wirelessly communicate with other wireless nodes of the tracking system and a plurality of wireless tracking devices, according to some embodiments. The infrastructure node is associated with the location, and each of the wireless tracking devices of the plurality of wireless tracking devices is associated with an asset being tracked by the tracking system. In embodiments, the infrastructure node is used to collect data from the wireless tracking devices, relay the data to client devices, and detect unauthorized removal or addition of assets to the location.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a monitoring network are described. A server associates a master wireless node with a package in a first set of associated packages. The server and the master wireless node communicate with one another over first type of wireless communications interface. The server also associates a peripheral wireless node with another package in the set and with the master node. The peripheral wireless node and the master wireless node communicate with one another over a second type of wireless communications interface. The peripheral node includes a sensor operative to generate sensor data by sensing an environmental condition. The master wireless node processes the sensor data to generate one or more package-level statistics of the processed sensor data.

Abstract: A method, comprising detecting, by a wireless tracking system, a tampering event associated with an asset within an asset container; capturing, by the wireless tracking system, a first digital representation of the field of view including the asset container; determining, based on the wireless tracking system comparing the first representation to a second digital representation of the field of view including the asset container stored in memory, a difference between the first and second digital representations; and displaying, by the wireless tracking system, within a graphical user interface of a client device, the difference between the first and second digital representations, wherein displaying the difference comprises displaying an augmented reality overlay to emphasizes the difference.

Abstract: A method and system for replacing a first wireless node in an IoT system includes determining, by the first wireless node, that the first wireless node needs imminent replacement. The determination may be made, for example, based on a battery of the first wireless node being below a threshold level. The first wireless node initiates a discovery protocol for a second wireless node installed in proximity to the first wireless node, the second wireless node installed to replace the first wireless node. Upon discovery of the second wireless node, the first wireless node transmits a configuration file to the second wireless node, which the second wireless node copies to a storage of the second wireless node. The second wireless node configures itself to operate as a replacement for the first wireless node in the IoT system, based at least in part on the copied configuration file.

Abstract: A RFID system includes an RFID controller and an RFID reader communicatively coupled to at least one RFID antenna positioned within a cargo area of a vehicle. The RFID controller includes a status indicator for generating a visual indication, a processor, and memory storing a manifest defining RFID identifiers corresponding to assets for transport by the vehicle. The memory further stores firmware having machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: control the RFID reader to receive an RFID signal from an RFID tag using one of the at least one RFID antenna, decode an RFID identifier from the RFID signal identifying an RFID tag attached to an asset located within the cargo area, and generate, using the status indicator, a visual indication indicative of the asset being loaded in error when the RFID identifier is not listed in the manifest.