Collaborative Sensor Network

Abstract

A system comprises a first peer sensor tag configured to sense first sensor data using a first local sensor of the first peer sensor tag and a second peer sensor tag configured to sense second sensor data using a second local sensor of the second peer sensor tag while the second peer sensor tag is not within a communication range of the first peer sensor tag. The second peer sensor tag is configured to detect a first beacon signal of the first peer sensor tag, the first beacon signal including at least a portion of the first sensor data, the first beacon signal being transmitted according to a first network communication protocol. The second peer sensor tag is configured to obtain the at least a portion of the first sensor data from the first beacon signal. A base station is configured to detect a second beacon signal of the second peer sensor tag, the first beacon signal including the at least a portion of the first sensor data and at least a portion of the second sensor data. The base station is configured to obtain the at least a portion of the first sensor data and the at least a portion of the second sensor data from the second beacon signal, and to provide the at least a portion of the first sensor data and the at least a portion of the second sensor data to a server system using a second network communication protocol different from the first network communication protocol.

19 . A data communications system comprising:
 a first sensor tag configured to sense first sensor data using a first local sensor associated with the first peer sensor tag, and further configured to detect a second beacon signal from a second sensor tag transmitted according to a first network communications protocol and to obtain at least some sensor data from the second sensor tag, and   a base station configured to detect a first beacon signal transmitted by the first sensor tag, the first beacon signal including at least a portion of the data from the second sensor tag, and to provide to a server system at least a portion of the data from the second sensor tag using a second network communication protocol different from the first network communication protocol.