Automated system for producing location-based inventories
US8031070B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 30, 2007 |
| Grant date | Oct 4, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 19, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G2209/04
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A system for producing a location-based inventory of objects each furnished with an RFID transponder (24) designed to interact with an RFID reader/interrogator (30) and placed at different locations of a warehousing structure (10) including a plurality of rows (16A-16C) supported by vertical uprights (18A-18D). Each of the uprights of this warehousing structure is furnished at each of the rows with an RFID location transponder (26) and a processor (30; 32) to produce a location-based inventory of the objects present on the warehousing structure according to the information received from the transponders.
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