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US 2015/0310240 A1Published application
System and method for real time tracking using combined near field and far field radio frequency identification
AssigneeThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York
InventorsSatya SHARMA, Akshay ATHALYE
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Abstract
Provided is a portable transport apparatus having an enclosure for containing an item to be transported, a RFID reader connected to a near field antenna disposed within the enclosure for a first RFID reading of an area inside the enclosure and to a far field antenna disposed on the enclosure for a second RFID reading of an area outside the enclosure, and a wireless communication module, and a method of use of the portable transport apparatus.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- collecting a specimen;
- associating a first Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag with the specimen;
- placing the specimen in a specimen holder;
- affixing the first RFID tag to the specimen holder;
- loading the specimen holder into a container;
- interrogating, by a controller of the container, the first RFID tag;
- obtaining first data from the interrogation of the first RFID tag;
- interrogating, by the controller, a second RFID tag external to the container;
- obtaining second data from the interrogation of the second RFID tag;
- communicating, by the controller, the first data and the second data to a database;
- and
- identifying, by the database from the first data and the second data, a current location of the specimen holder and the container.
9 more elements
A portable transport apparatus comprising:
- an enclosure for containing an item to be transported;
- and
- a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader configured to obtain a first RFID reading of an area inside the enclosure and to obtain a second RFID reading of an area outside the enclosure.
A method for medication transport, the method comprising:
- programming a first Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag associated with the medication;
- affixing the first RFID tag on a medication holder;
- and
- loading the medication holder into a container;
- interrogating, by a controller of the container, the first RFID tag;
- obtaining first data from the interrogation of the first RFID tag;
- interrogating, by the controller, a second RFID tag external to the container;
- obtaining second data from the interrogation of the second RFID tag;
- communicating, by the controller to a database, the first data and the second data;
- and
- identifying, by the database from the first data and the second data, a current location of the specimen holder and the container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.