Abstract: A wireless location system is provided. The system includes network tags that emit a signal containing tag data, network readers that continuously receive data from the tags, a communication motes to receive the tag data from the readers and to calculate a network signal strength of the signal between the reader and the mote, and a server. The server receives the tag data and network signal strength data from the communication mote, performs calculations on the data, and determines the location of the reader that received the tag data based in part on the received network signal strength data.