Patent ID: 8872630
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cabinet asset management, comprising: a management unit including a management module, a read-write module, and a control module; and an antenna board unit including an address identification module, a switching module, and at least one antenna module; wherein the management unit and the antenna board unit are connected through a data bus and a control bus, wherein the management unit is configured to send a read signal to the antenna board unit through the data bus, to instruct the antenna board unit to acquire configuration information of a physical component, wherein the antenna board unit is configured to receive a control signal and the read signal, to send the read signal in a form of an electromagnetic wave, to receive the configuration information of the physical component from a label within a radiation range of the electromagnetic wave after the read signal is received, and to report the configuration information to the management unit through the data bus, wherein the label is located on the physical component and is configured to store the configuration information of the physical component, and wherein the management unit is further configured to receive the configuration information reported by the antenna board unit and to perform analysis processing on the configuration information, wherein the management module connects to the control module through the control bus, wherein the switching module and the at least one antenna module are connected through the data bus, wherein the read-write module is configured to receive a data signal through the data bus from the switching module, wherein the control module is configured to transmit the control signal through the control bus to the address identification module, wherein the control signal contains an address of the antenna board unit and an address of the physical component, wherein the control module is configured to send the control signal to the address identification module of the antenna board unit that corresponds to the address of the antenna board unit contained in the control signal and the read signal to the read-write module, wherein the address identification module is configured to receive the control signal to identify the address of the antenna board unit and the address of the physical component contained in the control signal, and to control the switching module to switch the data bus to the antenna module that corresponds to the address of the physical component, wherein the read-write module is configured to receive the read signal and to send the read signal to the antenna module, wherein the antenna module is configured to, after the read signal is received, send the read signal in the form of the electromagnetic wave, to receive the configuration information of the physical component, to transmit the configuration information to the read-write module, and to report the configuration information to the management module via the read-write module, wherein the configuration information is sent by the label within the radiation range of the electromagnetic wave after the read signal is received, and wherein the management module is configured to receive the configuration information reported by the read-write module and to perform the analysis processing on the configuration information.