Patent ID: 7557712
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: G07C,G08B

Abstract:
1. A system for monitoring equipment, said system comprising: at least one sensor for generating a detection field; an electronic equipment tag associated with a piece of secured equipment; an electronic personnel tag identifying a person; a server, in communication with said at least one sensor, for matching detection in said detection field of said equipment tag with detection in said detection field of a personnel tag and determining whether a person identified by the detected personnel tag is authorized to use equipment corresponding to the detected equipment tag; and a warning system controlled by said server that is triggered when two or more personnel tags are detected within said detection field, said warning system indicating that only one person may leave the detection field with a piece of secured equipment at a time so that said sewer can match a personnel tag of a person exiting said detection field with a corresponding electronic equipment tag of secured equipment being removed.