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

Claim 9:
10. A method of monitoring environmental conditions of an item of interest, the method comprising:
measuring, by an article-identification-and-location device physically coupled to the item of interest, a condition of an environment of the item of interest;
receiving, by the article-identification-and-location device, information in a radiofrequency (RF) signal transmitted by an electronic device used by a user;
processing the information to switch to the article-identification-and-location device to a mode from a plurality of different modes that the device operates in;
performing an action commensurate with the mode from a plurality of preset actions in response to processing the information;
confirming, by the article-identification-and-location device, the user electronic device is permitted to receive environmental data from the article-identification-and-location device in response to the information received in the RF signal transmitted by the user electronic device;
transmitting, by the article-identification-and-location device, after confirming the user electronic device is permitted to receive environmental data from the article-identification-and-location device, an RF signal that conveys environmental data corresponding to the measured environmental condition of the item of interest; and
pairing, by the user electronic device, a current geographical location of the item of interest with the environmental data corresponding to the measured environmental condition of the item of interest that is conveyed by the RF signal transmitted by article-identification-and-location device, 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.