Patent ID: 8077050
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An evaluating apparatus arranged to evaluate an item-transport system having a flow path along which items are transported, the apparatus comprising: one or more position markers positioned adjacent the flow path of the item-transport system; an evaluating device configured to sense the position markers and conditions of the item-transport system while the evaluating device is being transported along the flow path through the item-transport system, the evaluating device including: at least one computing device configured to receive said data from the evaluation sensor, the position-marker sensor, and the distance meter and determine a particular location at which the evaluating device was along the flow path of the item-transport system when a particular condition of said conditions of the item-transport system was sensed, wherein the computing device is configured to determine said particular location based at least in part on the evaluation-sensor data, the distance data, and the position-marker data.