Patent ID: 7350715

Claim:
A method of tracking electronic devices equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking tags, the electronic devices being housed in bays in a server rack, wherein the bays are provided along a vertical axis of the server rack, said method comprising: traversing at least one RFID reading device along locations corresponding to the bays in the server rack; monitoring the position of said at least one RFID reading device; sequentially activating said at least one RFID reading device to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal into each respective bay, said RF signal having a signal strength that is sufficiently strong to only interrogate a single bay location during the activation of said at least one RFID reading device, to interrogate said RFID tracking tags of said electronic devices present in said bays of the server rack; collecting identification data from said RFID tracking tags; and determining at least one of a presence and a location of at least one of said electronic devices based on said collected identification data.