Patent ID: 9697395
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G01S,G06K

Claim:
1. A method for identifying parts with electromagnetic identification (EMID) tags, the method comprising: receiving, with at least one first antenna on a mobile EMID reader portal, at least one first signal from at least one of the EMID tags, wherein the at least one first signal comprises identification (ID) information; transmitting, with at least one second antenna on the mobile EMID reader portal, at least one second signal comprising the ID information to at least one access point; transmitting, with the at least one access point, at least one third signal comprising the ID information to an EMID processing system and to a location processing system, wherein the at least one third signal further comprises signal information relating to the at least one second signal; determining, with the location processing system, a location of the mobile EMID reader portal by using the signal information relating to the at least one second signal; transmitting, by the location processing system, the location of the mobile EMID reader portal to the EMID processing system; associating, by the EMID processing system, the at least one of the EMID tags with the location of the mobile EMID reader portal; and matching, by the EMID processing system, at least one of a name or a hostname in the mobile EMID reader portal with at least one of a location name or a zone name in which the mobile EMID reader portal is operating within for metadata purposes.