Augmented-capacity container

An apparatus comprising:

• a housing;
• a space within the housing for holding content;
• a weighing system for measuring a weight value of a user content;
• one or more sensors configured to detect absence of any built-in component;
• a processor coupled to the one or more sensors, the processor configured to calculate a tare weight value based on the absence and to use the tare weight value to add to the weight value of the user content to generate a composite weight value for display;
• a floor panel within the housing, wherein the placement of the floor panel determines a first area dimension for the space and a second area dimension for housing the weighing system;
• a patch antenna positioned on an external surface of the apparatus;
• and
• a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver coupled to the antenna to receive pseudonoise (PN) ranging signals, and wherein the processor is further configured to generate location information of the apparatus based on the PN ranging signals.

An apparatus comprising:

• a housing;
• a space within the housing for holding a user content;
• a weighing system for measuring a weight value of the user content;
• a floor panel within the housing, wherein the placement of the floor panel determines a first area dimension for the space and a second area dimension for housing the weighing system;
• one or more sensors configured to detect absence of any built-in component;
• and
• a processor coupled to the one or more sensors, the processor configured to calculate a tare weight value based on the absence and to use the tare weight value to add to the weight value of the user content to generate a composite weight value for display.