Managing assets with active electronic tags

Details Managing assets with active electronic tags Managing assets with active electronic tags

1996-06-26

1998-06-30

Cosimano, Edward R.

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Inventory management

235385, 340568, 340572, 34082554, 36447801, 36447802, 36447803, 36447813, G06F 1760

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057748764

ABSTRACT:
An object in a storage area or moving vehicle is monitored by attaching an electronic tag to the object. An electronic device detects the presence of the object by communicating with the tag while the object is in storage or is being moved by the vehicle. The tags may also determine the location of an attached object and may reroute the object if it deviates from a given shipping schedule. A group of objects is monitored by two electronic tags, each attached to an object in the group. Each tag has circuitry for communicating information relating to an object in the group to a second tag. Each tag also includes a memory connected to the circuitry that is capable of storing the information, and a controller connected to the memory and the circuitry.

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