Patent ID: 7975931

Claim:
A system for remotely controlling and monitoring a refrigerator, comprising: a control unit for checking and storing a plurality of functioning parameters of said refrigerator, the plurality of functioning parameters including at least a refrigerator current absorption; a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader for reading data stored in a plurality of RFID tags attached to products stocked in the refrigerator, a communication unit for interconnecting an external device for obtaining information on a geographical localization of said refrigerator, said RFID reader comprising means for retrieving said data from said RFID tags when said products are still stocked inside said refrigerator and said communication unit comprising localization means for transmitting information to said external device on a geographical localization of said refrigerator, and means for transmitting said functioning parameters and a delocalization message from the communication unit to a remote server, said delocalization message being transmitted when a number of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) transmission cells connected by the communication unit before a power off and overlapping to GSM/GPRS transmission cells connected by the communication unit after a successive power on is not greater than a predetermined threshold.