Patent ID: 9640054
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G01V,G06Q,G08B

Claim:
1. A system for tracking locations of items comprising: a plurality of items, each item being configured to be stored and removed from a compartment; a plurality of tags affixed to the plurality of items in a one-to-one correspondence to uniquely identify each item in the plurality of items with an identifier stored in each tag; a tag reading device associated with the compartment and configured to receive data from each tag in the plurality of tags in response to each removal from and each return to the compartment of each item in the plurality of items; a sensor configured to identify a state change of the compartment; an output device; a processor communicatively coupled to the tag reading device, the sensor, and the output device, the processor being configured to: a global positions system (GPS) receiver configured to identify a location of the one item; a wireless network device configured to send and receive messages using a wireless data network; and a tag processor operatively connected to the GPS receiver and the wireless network device, the tag processor being further configured to: send a message including the identified location of the one item to the computing device through the wireless data network.