Patent ID: 7806333

Claim:
A system comprising: an electronics cabinet housing a plurality of assets having respective RFID tags, wherein the plurality of assets are arranged at predefined intervals in the electronics cabinet, said predefined intervals having a dimension that extends at least one predefined measurement unit; a reader device having a plurality of loop antennas positioned on the electronics cabinet such that portions of at least two of the plurality of loop antennas physically overlap each other and are in approximately the same plane, wherein pairs of the overlapping loop antennas are positioned with respect to respective RFID tags of the plurality of assets, such that each of the RFID tags is within both signal fields of a respective pair of overlapping antennas; and wherein the reader device is configured to selectively activate the plurality of overlapping antennas to thereby selectively interrogate the RFID tags, and wherein the reader device is configured to use the selective interrogation of the RFID tags to deduce the locations of the RFID tags and the plurality of assets upon which the RFID tags are provided with respect to the electronics cabinet.