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Wireless communications control in a controlled environment facility

  • US 8,019,354 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2006
  • Issued: 09/13/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a multi-path mesh network of wireless nodes, wherein said network of wireless nodes comprises a plurality of wireless nodes disposed to passively monitor RF signals emitted from wireless devices within at least a portion of a controlled environment facility; and

    an information processing platform separate from and in communication with said network of wireless nodes and operable to process information provided by one or more of said wireless node, and provide location information specific to an unauthorized wireless device disposed in said controlled environment facility, wherein said one or more wireless node is further adapted to alert one or more neighboring wireless node, upon detection of a signal from said unauthorized wireless device, said one or more neighboring wireless node being a part of said network of wireless nodes, the unauthorized wireless device being identified as such through a comparison between identification information corresponding to the unauthorized wireless device and identification information corresponding to one or more wireless devices registered with the information processing platform.

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