Transmission regulation of tag readers

A method, comprising:

• comparing, at a computing device, transmission reports received from one or more mobile tag readers to a reporting rule, wherein each transmission report comprises data received by a respective mobile tag reader through a wireless transmission from a tag and a reported location of the respective mobile tag reader;
• responsive to a determination that one or more of the transmission reports satisfy the reporting rule, generating an instruction that instructs a mobile tag reader to reduce how often transmission reports are sent to the server;
• selecting one or more mobile tag readers to receive the instruction based on the reported location;
• and
• sending the instruction to the selected one or more mobile tag readers.

A mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

• a processor;
• a communication interface coupled to the processor;
• a memory coupled to the processor and comprising computer readable program code embodied in the memory that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
• determining a location of the mobile communication terminal responsive to receiving a wireless transmission from a tag;
• sending a transmission report to a server, wherein the transmission report comprises data received from the tag and the location of the mobile communication terminal;
• and
• reducing how often transmission reports are sent to the server responsive to receiving an instruction from the server.