Patent ID: 9720480
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G01D,G01N,G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A package tracking device, comprising: a battery; at least two light sensors configured to detect changes in an amount of light within the package; a circuit board arranged with a first processing device associated with a first plurality of functions of the device, wherein the first plurality of functions includes collecting data from the at least two light sensors, and a second processing device associated with a second plurality of functions of the device, wherein power requirements of functions from the second plurality of functions exceed power requirements of functions from the first plurality of functions; the device is configured to: turn off any combination of elements associated with functions from the first plurality of functions and the second plurality of functions to minimize the overall power usage; and selectively turn on one or more of the elements that were previously turned off, upon detection of a change in the amount of light within the package.