Power reports in wireless scanner systems

A scanning system, comprising:

• a mobile device operable for processing scan related information, and comprising an on-board battery power source and a component operable for sensing a power level present in the battery;
• and
• a radio frequency (RF) scanner coupled over a communicative link with the mobile device and operable for scanning a potential source of information, accessing corresponding scan data upon detecting the information, modulating the accessed scan data, and transmitting a scan data signal, which comprises the modulated scan data and corresponds to the scan related information, to the mobile device, and wherein the RF scanner is further operable for polling the mobile device in relation to the sensed power level present in the battery power source thereof;
• wherein the mobile device is further operable responsive to the polling for reporting to the RF scanner data in relation to the sensed power level present in the battery source providing power to the mobile device;
• and
• wherein the RF scanner is further operable for:
• processing the reported data relating to the sensed power level present in the battery source providing power to the mobile device;
• evaluating the processed data relating to the sensed power level present in the battery source providing power to the mobile device;
• upon the evaluation detecting that the processed data indicate that the power level present in the battery source providing power to the mobile device is at or below a low power set point, commanding a presentation of a corresponding alert in relation to the detected low power level present in the battery providing power to the mobile device;
• and
• presenting the corresponding alert with an indicator component of the RF scanner.

A method comprising the steps of:

• polling a mobile device, from a RF scanner, in relation to a power level present in a battery source providing power to the mobile device;
• receiving, with the RF scanner, data relating to the checked power level present in the battery source providing power to the mobile device;
• processing, with the RF scanner, the reported data relating to the checked power level present in the battery source providing power to the mobile device;
• in response to detecting that the processed data indicates that the power level present in the battery source providing power to the mobile device is at or below a low power set point, commanding, with the RF scanner, a presentation of a corresponding alert relating to the detected low power level present in the battery providing power to the mobile device;
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• presenting, with the RF scanner, the corresponding alert relating to the detected low power level present in the battery providing power to the mobile device on an indicator component of the RF scanner.