The Active Badge emitted infrared signals that allowed receivers in the infrastructure to detect where a user was in a building. While not commonly thought of as a network, this system was a forerunner of many similar local area systems.
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Title: Xerox PARC/Olivetti Research Laboratory Active Badge location system (research prototype from the collection of Keith Edwards)
Date: 1992
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