Method and apparatus of managing wireless communication in a worksite

US8031629B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG · CH

Inventors

• Peter Stegmaier · Ponte Capriasca, CH
• Klaus Schneider · Tiefenbronn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 2005
• Grant date: Oct 4, 2011
• Expiry date: Mar 24, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/0278
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of controlling wireless messaging between mobile apparatuses and an onsite office in a worksite, including: dividing the worksite area into elementary cells mapped in correspondence with the topology of the area and into and communication zones, establishing at least one updatable communication attribute value pertaining to a parameter of wireless communication, establishing at least one worksite management attribute value pertaining to a parameter other than a wireless communication parameter of the worksite at that cell, storing values of the worksite and communication attributes, forming a worksite management message with an electronically readable content containing at least one worksite management attribute value, accessing the memory to obtain at least one current communication attribute value, and establishing a wireless communication to or from the communication zone to send or receive the management message on the basis of the current communication attribute value(s) electronically accessed from the memory.