Patent ID: 9739591
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G01B,H04B

Claim:
1. A metrology device comprising: a housing; a measurement device operably coupled to the housing and configured to measure an object; a first wireless communications device having an antenna, an electric circuit and a memory, the antenna configured to receive a signal from an operating field generated by an external device, the external device being within a first distance of the antenna, the electric circuit and the antenna being configured to cooperate to modulate the operating field, wherein the electric circuit is configured to receive a first data from the external device and store the received first data in the memory, the electric circuit further configured to transmit a second data to the external device through the modulation of the operating field; a second wireless communications device having a second antenna configured to receive a radio frequency signal, the second wireless communication device being further configured to operate at a second distance from the second antenna to the external device, the second distance being larger than the first distance, the second wireless communications device having at least one operating parameter; and an electronic processing system operably coupled to the measurement device, the first wireless communications device and the second wireless communications device, the electronic processing system being configured to determine three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of at least one point on a surface of the object based on a measurement by the measurement device, the electronic processing system further being responsive to activate and change the at least one operating parameter of the second wireless communications device in response to the electric circuit receiving the first data from the operating field.