Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and systems for tracking RFID devices
- Patent Title (中): 用于跟踪RFID设备的方法和系统
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Application No.: US12136578Application Date: 2008-06-10
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Publication No.: US08120486B2Publication Date: 2012-02-21
- Inventor: Charles Rinkes
- Applicant: Charles Rinkes
- Applicant Address: US NY Holtsville
- Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Holtsville
- Agent Glenn Frankenburger; Bartholomew DiVita; Terri Hughes Smith
- Main IPC: G08B13/14
- IPC: G08B13/14

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for tracking and monitoring tagged objects in an RFID environment is described. By varying RFID reader antenna output power levels and detecting RFID devices in the vicinity, data about position and orientation of the RFID devices can be gathered. This gathered data is used to correlate with pre-stored data about RFID devices' position and orientation. Such a correlation then can be used to infer data about neighboring RFID devices based upon data stored in the database. Such an inferential technique also results in a faster analysis of position and orientation data of RFID devices, and also leads to faster tracking of RFID enabled devices. Unnecessary reads and high power operations of the RFID reader are also avoided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090303047A1 Methods and Systems for Tracking RFID Devices Public/Granted day:2009-12-10
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