US 12,192,870 B1
System, method and apparatus for non-invasive sensor configuration and networking
Phil Lafleur, Ontario (CA); Ronald Straz, Annadale, VA (US); and Guenther Kramer, Gatineau (CA)
Assigned to ORBCOMM, Inc., Rochelle Park, NJ (US)
Filed by ORBCOMM, INC., Rochelle Park, NJ (US)
Filed on May 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/750,294.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/191,068, filed on May 20, 2021.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); G16Y 10/75 (2020.01)
CPC H04W 4/80 (2018.02) [H04W 76/14 (2018.02); G16Y 10/75 (2020.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for pairing a LoRa network device and one or more IoT devices, the method comprising:
identifying a first IoT device to be paired;
confirming that the first IoT device comprises a LoRa transceiver;
identifying a second IoT device to be paired;
determining whether the second IoT device comprises a LoRa transceiver; wherein if the second IoT device is determined be without a LoRa transceiver, the method further comprises the step of: establishing a first local sensor network using BLE and relaying a first set of received BLE sensor data via LoRa within a first LoRaLAN network; wherein a first set of LoRa transmissions to the LoRa transceiver are used for asset penetration; wherein the LoRa transceiver is configured to retransmit received signals from within an asset to one or more remote networks;
forwarding IoT device definitions to the LoRa transceiver via BLE;
exchanging network and session keys;
matching regional LoRa parameters;
transmitting the LoRa communication parameters of the first LoRaLAN network to the first IoT device; wherein the LoRa communication parameters comprise parameters selected from a first group of parameters comprising: read frequency and sensor parameters; and
establishing LoRa communications within the first LoRaLAN network between at least one paired IoT device and the LoRa network device.