Patent ID: 11954639
Assignee: nan
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A system comprising:
a plurality of wireless nodes comprising a plurality of tracking devices, each tracking device attached to a respective asset and comprising:
a processor,
a battery,
a wireless communication system for communicating with other wireless nodes of the system, and
a memory or storage storing an identifier associated with the respective asset;

a first tracking device of the plurality of wireless nodes, the memory or storage of the first tracking device storing instructions when executed by the tracking device cause the tracking device to:
detect that a first asset that the tracking device is attached to has been grouped with other assets;
determine a manifest of asset identifiers for each asset in the group of assets; and
transmit the manifest to another wireless node of the system; and

a server configured to track the assets associated with the plurality of tracking devices based on received data on the plurality of tracking devices, wherein
the server is configured to receive the determined manifest of asset identifiers for each asset in the group of assets from a wireless node of the system, and determine that each asset corresponding to the identifiers in the manifest is used or empty.