Secure method and apparatus for retrieving network node identifier in wireless networks
US7307521B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 10, 2005 |
| Grant date | Dec 11, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 11, 2025 |
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- 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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