Patent ID: 7170407

Claim:
In an establishment having multiple rooms for temporary occupancy wherein each room has a doorway for access to a common access path to die rooms, a system for identification and monitoring of, and obtaining data including location and status data relating to, assets of the establishment including mobile property within the establishment or persons temporarily residing or working in the establishment, the system comprising: a wireless first communicator mounted in association with each room so as to be within a communication enabling proximity to the access path, at least one wireless interactive second communicator for use in association with an asset of the establishment, and wherein a plurality of said first communicators are thereby spaced apart along the access path to the rooms, and within said communication enabling proximity to the access path for communication between said first and second communicators, wherein each of said first communicators cooperates in wireless communication with each second communicator of said at least one wireless second communicator when said second communicator is in said communication enabling proximity to said each first communicator along the access path, wherein said second communicator is a wireless tag and wherein said each first communicator interacts in non-contact wireless communication with said tag so as to obtain unique data, unique to said tag, and wherein at least one of room sensors or devices within each room includes means for providing status information to said first communicator, wherein each said first communicator is associated with its own unique room and is adapted to be remotely interrogated by a second communicator communicating with said first communicator so as to obtain tag information from said unique data obtained from said tag, and said status information from room sensors or devices within each said room.