Patent ID: 9633494
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06Q,G07C,Y02W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: maintaining, by a computer system, associations between radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and a plurality of storage devices that are in a data storage area, each RFID tag associated with a respective storage device; maintaining, by the computer system, metrics that indicate respective conditions for the plurality of storage devices; transmitting, by the computer system, to a user device of a technician, an indication that identifies a particular storage device of the plurality of storage devices for destruction, the indication based on the metrics; receiving, by the computer system, an indication that the technician has entered a secure area of the data storage area with the particular storage device, the indication that the technician has entered the secure area based on an interaction between an identification (ID) badge of the technician and an ID badge reader at the secure area and based on a location of the particular storage device, the location determined based on the RFID tag associated with the particular storage device; transmitting, by the computer system, a first signal to the ID badge reader that prevents the technician from leaving the secure area; and in response to receiving, by the computer system, a second signal from a destruction device in the secure area, allowing the technician to leave the secure area, the second signal identifying that the particular storage device is destroyed.