Patent ID: 11348427

Abstract:
Active radio-frequency identification, RFID, tag, and a product surveillance method using active RFID tags. The method includes: transmitting (202), by an active RFID tag, continuously a signal comprising an own identifier according to a predetermined schedule; receiving (204), by the active RFID tag, continuously a plurality of signals comprising a plurality of foreign identifiers transmitted by a plurality of other active RFID tags according to the predetermined schedule; measuring (206), by the active RFID tag, a received signal strength indication, RSSI, of each received signal; storing (208), by the active RFID tag, each foreign identifier of a signal whose RSSI exceeds a predetermined strength threshold; detecting (210), by the active RFID tag, that a signal with a stored foreign identifier is no more received according to the predetermined schedule and marking (212), by the active RFID tag, said stored foreign identifier.