Patent ID: 8915493

Claim:
A method for monitoring and/or controlling the transportation and/or the handling of products, the method comprising: associating each of the products with a reference ( 4 ), conveying the products by a transportation apparatus one after the other, preferably spaced apart from one another, in a transportation direction, guiding by the transportation apparatus past at least one detection apparatus ( 1 , 1 ′) that records the reference ( 4 ) and transmits a message associated with the reference to a processing unit ( 3 ), combining multiple messages concerning references ( 4 ) of the products during a time delay period ( 9 ) to form a message packet ( 6 ), wherein the time delay period ( 9 ) is between 5 and 3000 msec, and transmitting the message packet ( 6 ) to the processing unit ( 3 ) after the time delay period has elapsed.