US 7,034,683 B2 · Electronic vehicle product and personnel monitoring

Abstract

A system providing vehicle, pallet, and personnel tracking within buildings, vehicles such as trucks/trailers, buses, trains and aircraft at a site or in a global network system. RFID transponder Gate readers are used in building doorways, in vehicles such as tracks/trailers gates or bus doors to read pallets, packages and personnel equipped with RFID transponder and tamper proof RFID RF transceiver tags. The RFID-RF transceivers may contain a GPS/GSM modem for locating of pallets or personnel with RF or GPS location system. Site Buildings and vehicles are equipped with compute interface unit, to communicate at time intervals with RFID-RF tag transceiver units installed on pallets or personnel wristwatch, to indicate the presence of pallets or personnel at a site or in a vehicle. Tamperproof RF, GPS/GSM or satellite modems installed on vehicle are used to communicate with site station or to a monitoring station computer network (Server) with the collected data from said vehicle gate reader, for tracking and finding the location of a particular vehicle, and its cargo content or personnel information related to particular vehicle, at a remote or open site.

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Dependent claims

A system for securing and tracking cargo contents delivered by a plurality of vehicles to and from a plurality of site stations, comprising:

a) a plurality of RFID tags each being attached to one of the objects and pre-storing an identification information thereof;
b) a plurality of site stations each comprising:
b1) a site computer pre-storing identification information of the RFID tags and content information of the objects to be removed from or loaded in the site station;
and
b2) a site RFID tag reader operative to read the identification information pre-stored in the RFID tags upon exiting or entering the site station, and to send the identification and content information to the site computer;
and
c) a plurality of vehicles each comprising:
c1) a vehicle RFID tag reader operative to read the identification information pre-stored in the RFID tags upon exiting or entering the vehicle;
and
c2) a vehicle RFID transceiver CPU pre-storing identification information of the vehicle, the vehicle RFID transceiver CPU being operative to receive the identification information read by the vehicle RFID tag reader and transmit a signal carrying the identification information read by the vehicle RFID tag reader and the identification information of the vehicle to the site computer.

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