Electronic method and system for monitoring containers and products
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsSmriti Dhanjal, Rafael Melendez, Nicholas Griffin
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Abstract
An electronic method for monitoring the location of a container and one or more products capable of being contained in the container in an operating environment. The method can include the steps of (a) placing an extreme condition identification (ID) tag encoded with a container ID on a location on a container capable of containing one or more products; (b) associating the one or more products with the container ID; and (c) tracking the location of the containers based on the extreme condition ID tag.
Claims20
An electronic method for monitoring the location of a container and one or more products capable of being contained in the container in an operating environment, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) placing an extreme condition identification (ID) tag encoded with a container ID on a location on a container capable of containing one or more products;
- (b) associating the one or more products with the container ID;
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- (c) tracking the location of the container based on the extreme condition ID tag.
An electronic system for monitoring the location of a container and one or more products capable of being contained on the container in an operating environment, the system comprising:
- (a) one or more extreme condition identification (ID) tag encoded with a container ID on a location on a container capable of containing one or more products;
- (b) a database for storing the association of the one or more products with the container ID;
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- (c) one or more tracking devices for tracking the location of the container based on the extreme condition tag.
An electronic method for monitoring the location of a container and one or more products capable of being contained on the container in an operating environment, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) placing an extreme condition radio frequency identification (RFID) tag encoded with a container identification (ID) on a location on a container capable of containing one or more products;
- (b) associating the one or more products with the container ID;
- (c) tracking the location of the container based on the extreme condition tag;
- (d) tracking the location of the container via one or more radio frequency (RF) interrogators capable of identifying the location of the extreme condition RFID tag;
- (e) placing the one or more RF interrogators at one or more tracking device placement locations;
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- (f) transmitting the location of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.