Patent ID: 8378829

Claim:
A method for monitoring and/or controlling a high-speed transportation apparatus ( 10 , 20 ) in which a multiplicity of like products ( 17 ), particularly printed products such as newspapers or magazines, are held detachably by means of individual clamps ( 12 ) arranged in a succession to one another and are transported along a transportation path ( 19 ) in succession, the method comprising: transporting the clamps ( 12 ) along a continuous transport chain ( 11 ) defining the transportation path ( 19 ); providing each of the clamps with at least one readable tag (T 1 , . . . , T 5 ; Tn); bringing an element of a read in/out apparatus ( 30 ) within the transport path ( 19 ) and adjacent to a corresponding one of the clamps for the purpose of reading in and/or out prescribed volumes of data in the at least one tag (T 1 , . . . , T 5 ; Tn) on the corresponding one of the clamps ( 12 ); and moving the element of the read in/out apparatus ( 3 ) within the transport path ( 19 ) along with the corresponding one of the clamps ( 12 ) over a selected section of the transport path ( 19 ).