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US 2018/0121777 A1Published application
Systems and methods for an automated, near real-time, and mobile identification and localization approach with a combination of battery-less identification marking technologies and pseudo range-free localization algorithms
AssigneeArizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
InventorDavid Grau Torrent
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Abstract
Embodiments of an automated and mobile identification and localization system and method for tracking both the final (stationary) and intermediate (transient) location of non-bulk resources and components are disclosed.
Claims17
A passive tracking system comprising:
- a roving agent having a radio frequency identification receiver, the roving agent being operable for moving one or more tagged items from a first location to a second location;
- a passive radio frequency identification tag associated with each respective one or more tagged items being moved from the first location to the second location by the roving agent, the passive radio frequency identification tag being detected by the radio frequency identification receiver when located on the roving agent;
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- a positional receiver associated with the roving agent and synchronized with the radio frequency identification receiver of the roving agent, the positional receiver being operable to synchronize a position of roving agent when a respective one or more tagged items being moved by the roving agent is detected by the radio frequency identification receiver.
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A passive tracking process comprising:
- storing in a database the identity of one or more radio frequency identification tags associated with a respective one or more tagged items detected by a roving agent;
- reading positional data of the roving agent traveling from a first position to a second position when one or more passive radio frequency identification tags located on the roving agent is detected by a radio frequency identification receiver of the roving agent;
- determining which of the one or more passive radio frequency identification tags is detected by the radio frequency identification receiver of the roving agent;
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- updating the location of the one or more passive radio frequency identification tags detected by the radio frequency identification receiver in the database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.