Range extension and dynamic power control for localization on commercial UHF RFID reader

At least one non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to cause a compute node to:

• communicate with a mobile agent to identify one or more landmark radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and one or more object RFID tags within a relay range of the mobile agent;
• send a first command to the mobile agent to reduce the relay range of the mobile agent when based on a determination that multiple landmark RFID tags are within the relay range of the mobile agent;
• and
• send a second command to the mobile agent to set a sleep mode for a time period and power back on after expiration of the time period based on a determination that the relay range of the mobile agent overlaps with multiple RFID readers.

A mobile agent comprising:

• a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips;
• instructions;
• and
• processor circuitry coupled to the plurality of RFID chips, the processor circuitry to be programmed based on the instructions to:
• associate respective bit values with ones of the RFID chips based on whether the ones of the RFID have been selected and queried by an RFID reader remote from the mobile agent;
• perform a function based on the bit values;
• and
• obtain an instruction from the RFID reader to (i) enter a sleep mode for a time period based on a landmark tag being within a relay range of the mobile agent, and (ii) power back on after expiration of the time period.