Medical storage cabinet with RFID inventory

Medical storage cabinet comprising a frame, side walls, a top, a base, a back, a plurality of horizontal shelves arranged one above another in said cabinet wherein successive ones of said shelves define between them respective storage compartments in which may be stored a plurality of RFID-tagged items;

• and for each compartment an access door disposed at a front side of the cabinet;
• wherein the side walls, top, base, back, shelves and doors are formed of steel;
• an RFID inventory interrogation and data collection arrangement within said cabinet, including
• an RFID transducer having an antenna array capable of emitting an RFID interrogate signal and capable of receiving from said RFID tagged items RFID response signals,
• a vertical elevator disposed within said cabinet at a rear of said shelves, and on which said RFID antenna array is mounted, and
• a drive arrangement for controllably driving said elevator up and down to move said RFID antenna array to a position aligned with a selected one of said compartments;
• and
• means controlling the RFID transducer to cause same to interrogate the RFID-tagged items within the selected compartment and to interpret the RFID response signals received from said RFID-tagged items.