Patent ID: 11922246
Assignee: POSITION IMAGING, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A system comprising:
an article-identification-and-location (A-I-A-L) device physically coupled to an item of interest, the A-I-A-L device including at least one sensor, a radiofrequency (RF) transceiver, and a processor in communication with the RF transceiver and the at least one sensor, the at least one sensor adapted to measure a condition of an environment of the item of interest; and
an electronic device used a user, the electronic device having an RF transceiver and a processor in communication with the RF transceiver of the electronic device,
wherein the RF transceiver of the A-I-A-L device receives information in an RF signal transmitted by the RF transceiver of the user electronic device, the processor of the A-I-A-L device confirms the user electronic device is permitted to receive environmental data from the A-I-A-L device in response to the information received in the RF signal transmitted by the RF transceiver of the user electronic device, and the RF transceiver of the A-I-A-L device transmits, after the processor of the A-I-A-L device confirms the user electronic device is permitted to receive environmental data from the A-I-A-L device, an RF signal that conveys environmental data corresponding to the measured environmental condition of the item of interest,
wherein the processor of the A-I-A-L device processes the information to switch to a mode from a plurality of different modes that the A-I-A-L device operates in, and performs an action commensurate with the mode from a plurality of preset actions in response to processing the unique information, and
wherein the user electronic device pairs a current geographical location of the item of interest with the environmental data corresponding to the measured environmental condition of the item of interest, to produce a data point representing the measured environmental condition of the item of interest at the current geographical location of the item of interest.