Patent ID: 7658334
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: F25D,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for remotely controlling and monitoring a food refrigerator of the type intended to be given in rental or in free loan from a manufacturer to a vendor of cold products, comprising: a control unit for checking and storing a plurality of functioning parameters of said food refrigerator, a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader for reading data stored in a plurality of RFID tags attached to said cold products, a communication unit for interconnecting an external device for obtaining information on a geographical localization of said food refrigerator, said RFID reader comprising means for retrieving said data from said RFID tags when said cold products are still stocked inside said food refrigerator and said communication unit comprising localization means for transmitting information to said external device on a geographical localization of said food refrigerator, and means for transmitting a delocalization message from the communication unit to the remote server when a number of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) transmission cells connected by the communication unit before a power off and overlapping to GSM/GPRS transmission cells connected by the communication unit after a successive power on is not greater than a predetermined threshold.