Patent ID: 6988080

Claim:
An automated security and reorder system for items maintained within a boundary, each item having an associated transponder, each transponder being configured to transmit item identification data for indicating a secured status and a consumable status of the associated item, the system comprising: a transponder communications device configured to electrically interrogate a transponder associated with an item maintained within the boundary and to receive item identification data in response; a controller disposed in operable communication with the transponder communications device, the controller being configured to generate an alert signal in response to detection of a given transponder having crossed the boundary and having item identification data indicating a secured status of the associated item, the controller being configured to generate an item reorder signal in response to detection of a given transponder having crossed the boundary and having item identification data indicating a consumable status of the associated item; and a database for receiving item reorder signals from the controller for generating an electronic shopping list for reordering of items.