The invention provides a system and method of identifying when a message is received at a control station from at least one device in a network having a plurality of devices, said method comprising the steps of receiving at the control station a low bandwidth signal from at least one device; obtaining a coarse timestamp estimate of when said low bandwidth signal is received by correlating with a pre-programmed signal template; generating a higher resolution correlation estimate by phase shifting the pre-programmed signal template and repeating the correlation; and detecting where the correlation is above a preselected value; and applying a curve fitting function about the higher resolution correlation estimate to obtain an accurate timestamp when the message was received.