Patent ID: 7970489

Claim:
A method for the automated monitoring and management of objects, of such as medications in hospital environments comprising the steps of: providing a network of n individual housings ( 24 ) containing a set of n objects, transmitting to at least one of these objects, one or several movements during the extraction of said object from the housing or the reintroduction of the object into an empty housing among the n housings, providing a pressure sensor to automatically and instantaneously detect the movements of introducing an object into the empty housing or withdrawing an object from the housing, transmitting the movement information to a computer processing unit wherein this housing comprises: a spring system comprising two blades ( 20 , 20 A) attached to a support block ( 12 ), wherein: a) during an introduction of an object into said housing, a transforming force separates the two blades perpendicular to the pressure sensor resulting in contact with the sensor, which sensor generates an item of movement information, b) during a withdrawal of an object from said housing, the two blades to move towards one another and consequently break a pre-established contact with the pressure sensor, which generates an item of movement information.