Patent ID: 11886856
Assignee: LANDIS+GYR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A system for providing data to multiple devices on a pallet, the system comprising:
a set of near field communication (NFC) antennas positioned at different locations around a perimeter of the pallet, each antenna of the set of NFC antennas being configured to surround the pallet; and
an NFC reader/writer in communication with the set of NFC antennas, the NFC reader/writer configured to:
broadcast, utilizing the set of NFC antennas, an identification command simultaneously to the multiple devices on the pallet, each of the multiple devices including an NFC tag storing a unique identification (ID) indicator;
receive, by the NFC reader/writer, unique ID indicators from each device of the multiple devices that receives the identification command;
transmit individual commands to each of the multiple devices based on the unique ID indicator to enable energy harvesting by the NFC tag, wherein NFC tags for each of the multiple devices harvest energy from transmissions by the NFC reader/writer, wherein energy harvested by each device provides power to operate a processor of the device and a nonvolatile memory of the device in a low power mode;
broadcast data to the multiple devices, wherein the data is stored in a memory of the NFC tag of each of the devices, and
transmit a verification message to verify that the data was successfully received by interrogating each device individually based on the unique ID indicator.