Systems, methods, and devices for commissioning wireless sensors
AssigneeADASA Inc.
InventorClarke William McAllister
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Abstract
In one embodiment the present invention comprises a smartphone and encoders for commissioning RFID transponders. The present invention further includes novel systems, devices, and methods for commissioning RFID transponders with unique object class instance numbers without requiring a realtime connection to a serialization database.
Claims16
A system that provides unique object numbers for on-demand commissioning of RFID transponders using an RFID encoder having an internal memory to intermittently receive allocations of blocks of subdivided object class serial number space from an external numbering authority, the system comprised of:
- the external numbering authority allocating blocks from the allocations of blocks of subdivided object class serial number space, from a larger object class serial number space, to lower database levels and to the encoder's internal memory for encoding unique object numbers into the RFID transponders as objects of an object class are presented to the encoder for RFID transponder encoding;
- the allocations of blocks of subdivided object class serial number space being allocated by subdividing the larger object class serial number space into sectors that are defined by a limited number of most significant bits of the object class serial numbers;
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- assigning to the RFID encoder the allocated blocks with reference to the starting number of each of the allocated blocks and the size of each of the allocated blocks that the RFID encoder is authorized to encode within an object class.
A plurality of commissioned RFID transponders each comprising a unique object number from an allocated block of subdivided object class serial number space;
- the allocated block having been allocated from an upper level database;
- the allocated block having a reference to a block starting serial number and a block size number within a larger object class serial number space;
- the allocated block being one of a plurality of allocations intermittently issued to lower database levels and to encoders having internal memory for storage of allocated blocks from an external encoding authority;
- the external encoding authority comprised of subdivisions of the larger object class serial number space into sectors that are defined by a limited number of most significant bits of the object class serial numbers;
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- the unique object number encoded into one of the plurality of RFID transponders as an object of the object class is presented to the encoder.
A method that provides unique object numbers for on-demand commissioning of RFID transponders using an RFID encoder having an internal memory to intermittently receive allocations of blocks of subdivided object class serial number space from an external numbering authority, the method comprised of:
- the external numbering authority allocating blocks from the allocations of blocks of subdivided object class serial number space, from a larger object class serial number space, to lower database levels and to the encoder's internal memory for encoding unique object numbers into the RFID transponders as objects of an object class are presented to the encoder for RFID transponder encoding;
- the allocations of blocks of subdivided object class serial number space being allocated by subdividing the larger object class serial number space into sectors that are defined by a limited number of most significant bits of the object class serial numbers;
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- assigning to the RFID encoder the allocated blocks with reference to the starting number of each of the allocated blocks and the size of each of the allocated blocks that the RFID encoder is authorized to encode within an object class.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.