Patent ID: 7503478

Claim:
A light fixture management system, comprising: a plurality of signal-transmitting devices, each configured to transmit a unique identifier; a portable reader for receiving signals comprising the unique identifiers transmitted by the signal-transmitting devices; a microprocessor appliance comprising a database, for receiving information from the portable reader comprising the identifiers received by the reader, and associating the received information with corresponding information in the database, wherein the database comprises information relating to the locations of each of a plurality of light fixtures and supplies relating to each of the plurality of light fixtures, wherein when each of the plurality of signal-transmitting devices is physically associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of light fixtures and the information received by the microprocessor appliance comprises the unique identifiers received by the portable reader from signal-transmitting devices associated with those light fixtures identified as being in need of repair or maintenance, the microprocessor appliance is configured to generate a report with information specific to light fixtures thus identified, the report comprising a repair task route based on relative locations of the identified light fixtures, specifying a sequence of light fixture maintenance based on the relative locations of the identified light fixtures and identifying supplies required for the identified light fixtures.