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Discriminating the time windows for different sensor units is the prerequisite to successfully demodulate the sensing message, but it traditionally calls for a very time-consuming manual calibration process. To combat this problem, a novel automatic time window locating method is proposed in this paper. It introduces the concept of shape function and carries out the cross-correlation operation between the shape function and the sensor signal. The shape function is defined as the function whose curve profile reflects the main data characteristics of the sensor signal. The time window information is then extracted from the correlation result. This whole process is carried out automatically by the interrogation controller of the sensor system without any manual intervene. Experiments are conducted to validate this method. 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