Patent ID: 9384458
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: F25D,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. An environmentally-controlled structure of a cold chain, the environmentally-controlled structure for storing goods including an identification device containing information about the goods, comprising: a sensor to sense a parameter indicative of an environmental condition in the environmentally-controlled structure; an identification reader positioned relative to the structure and configured to read the information about the goods; an environment implementer configured to modify the environmental condition inside the environmentally-controlled structure; a controller configured to receive the indication of the environmental condition inside the environmentally-controlled structure from the sensor, to receive the information about goods entering and leaving the environmentally-controlled structure from the identification reader, to maintain an inventory of goods in the environmentally-controlled structure, to compare an optimum environment for goods entering the environmentally-controlled structure with the optimum environment of goods already in the environmentally-controlled structure, to determine an updated optimum environment of goods in the environmentally-controlled structure based on the comparison between the optimum environment for goods entering the environmentally-controlled structure and on the optimum environment of goods already in the environmentally-controlled structure, and to control the environment implementer to adjust a desired environment inside the environmentally-controlled structure based on the updated optimum environment of goods in the environmentally-controlled structure; and an alarm configured to provide an indication to an operator when an optimum environment of a good entering the environmentally-controlled structure is incompatible with the optimum environments of goods already in the environmentally-controlled structure.