GEOLOCATION BASED ON RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION AND VIDEO IMAGERY

摘要

Methods and systems for estimating a location of a wireless electronic device within an environment and linking the presence of the wireless electronic device to a specific set of images collected in the vicinity of the estimated location are presented herein. In one aspect, the physical location of a wireless electronic device at a particular time is estimated based on the strength or time of reception of radio frequency signals collected by three or more geo-locator modules. Each of the three or more geo-locator modules identify a media access control (MAC) address associated with a wireless electronic device. In a further aspect, the geolocation of each identified MAC addressed device is tracked and recorded over time. In another further aspect, the wireless electronic device is linked to images collected by an imaging device while the wireless electronic device remains within a monitored area of the imaging device.