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Secure method and apparatus for retrieving network node identifier in wireless networks

US7307521B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 10, 2005
Grant dateDec 11, 2007
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/329
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A sensor node arrangement in a wireless network, includes a sensor to sense information, an RF transceiver to communicate the information to at least one element of the wireless network, and a coil to establish a secondary communications channel with a handheld device via inductive coupling, the secondary communications channel used, for example, to receive, during installation of the sensor node arrangement, a node identifier of the sensor node arrangement.

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