Medical cabinet communication system and methods
AssigneeWavemark, Inc.
InventorsNathan John Wicks, Richard Eugene Leitermann, Jean-claude Jacques Saghbini, Lars Rohrberg
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Abstract
Described is an RFID-enabled medical item storage, organization, and/or tracking device, such as a cabinet or shelf, that includes a limited-range wireless network communication capability, such as low-energy Bluetooth or Zigbee, to communicate with nearby cabinets, shelves or mobile devices, any of which may serve as a communication aggregator to coordinate the communication of multiple cabinets, shelves and other devices with an inventory management system or other back-end computer system or other device via back haul wireless or wired networks (e.g., the Internet).
Claims17
A storage cabinet, comprising:
- a shelf configured to read a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag associated with an item located within the storage cabinet;
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- a communication device configured to communicate with an inventory management system via a first communication channel, and further configured to communicate with a mobile device via a second communication channel;
- wherein the communication device communicates via the first communication channel to the inventory management system an inventory signal comprising information corresponding to the RFID tag associated with the item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.