String material with radio frequency identification tags
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorValentin Popescu
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Abstract
A product includes a string material; and a series of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags secured along a length of the string material. Each RFID tag has an identifier stored therein for transmission to identify that RFID tag and a path along the string material to a reader. A method includes laying a string material along a path through an infrastructure, the string material comprising Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags placed at intervals along a length of the string material. Each said RFID tag has an identifier stored therein for transmission to identify that RFID tag to a reader. The path is selected to correspond with a path to be followed through the infrastructure by a computer-driven mobile device.
Claims20
A product comprising:
- a string material;
- and
- a series of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags secured along a length of said string material,
- each said RFID tag having an identifier stored therein for transmission to identify that RFID tag and a path along said string material to a reader.
A method comprising:
- laying a string material along a path through an infrastructure, said string material comprising Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags placed at intervals along a length of said string material, each said RFID tag having an identifier stored therein for transmission to identify that RFID tag to a reader;
- in which said path is selected to correspond with a path to be followed through said infrastructure by a computer-driven mobile device.
A computer-driven mobile device comprising:
- a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag reader;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor;
- in which said processor is configured to cause said computer-driven mobile device to traverse an infrastructure based on information acquired by said RFID tag reader, said infrastructure comprising a string material placed along a route of said infrastructure, said string material comprising:
- RFID tags placed at relatively regular intervals along a length of said string material;
- in which identification numbers associated with said RFID tags follow a sequence along said length of said string material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.