Patent ID: 7436303

Claim:
A rack sensor controller for tracking assets comprising: a memory storing a location of the rack and sensor information received from a plurality of sensors, wherein at least some of the sensors include one or more RFID readers operable to read RFID tags attached to assets housed in a rack; a processor operable to receive the sensor information and generate a message including the sensor information and the location of the rack for transmission to one or more back-end applications via a first forwarder, wherein the one or more back-end applications use the location of the rack and the sensor information to track the assets, and the first forwarder is operable to receive the message, determine the one or more back-end applications to receive the message, if the one or more backend applications include multiple back-end applications determined to receive the message, replicate the message for each of the multiple back-end applications, and transmit the message to the one or more back-end applications.