Patent ID: 8094021

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving data representing a plurality of identifiers of monetary packages scheduled for pickup, the plurality being based on a location of a radio frequency identification (RFID) scanner and a time schedule of the monetary packages scheduled for pickup; wirelessly detecting, by the RFID scanner, a presence of RFID tags of a plurality of monetary packages at the location, each of the RFID tags indicating an identifier; responsive to a subsequent loss of detected presence of one of the RFID tags, generating a first alert; determining whether the presence of the one of the RFID tags is again detected, and if not, then generating a second alert; comparing the identifiers of the detected RFID tags with the plurality of identifiers; and responsive to determining that the detected identifiers of the RFID tags match the plurality of identifiers, wirelessly sending data representing a status of each of the detected identifiers of the RFID tags.