Patent ID: 7764191

Claim:
A system that facilitates utilizing a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag associated with an object, comprising: a filter component that processes data received from a plurality of RFID tags associated with a plurality of stations in response to a read broadcast and passes data from RFID tags that are associated with one of the plurality of stations, the one of the plurality of stations is selected based in part on a location of a mobile reader that transmits the read broadcast and a location of the one of the plurality of stations, wherein the mobile reader includes a location component that determines the location of the mobile reader; an RFID component that identifies extended data from the data passed by the filter component, the extended data identifies an operation to be performed on the object; an automation device that manipulates the object based at least in part upon the extended data and the identified operation, wherein a decision to drive control of an output is selected indirectly by least one of bits or numbers associated with the extended data; and an internal database local to a controller that is employed to store additional data associated with a plurality of objects, the controller identifies the additional data associated with the object based in part on the extended data and controls manipulation of the object by the automation device based in part on the additional data.