Patent ID: 7969293

Claim:
A read station for a vehicle supported by at least one wheel unit, comprising: a support pad admitting a vehicle to an upper pad surface; a plurality of data-receiving systems for selectively receiving at least one data transmission from the vehicle with the vehicle situated on the upper pad surface, the plurality of data-receiving systems including an identification-data transmission system and a monitored parameter-data transmission system; wherein the identification-data transmission system comprises: an identification data receiver proximally disposed adjacent to the support pad; an RFID transponder affixed to a vehicle wheel unit; a data transmission initiation signal generator, and at least one RF loop antenna connected to the data transmission initiation signal generator and disposed on the support pad to operationally transmit an RFID data transmission initiation signal from the data transmission signal generator to the RFID transponder; and the RFID transponder responsive to a receipt of the data transmission initiation signal transmitting identification data by air transmission to the data receiver; and the monitored parameter-data transmission system comprises a wheel-unit mounted monitoring device and at least one monitored parameter data receiver disposed adjacent to the support pad to operationally receive a monitored parameter-data transmission from the monitoring device.