Patent ID: 7835830

Claim:
A device for generating safe status signals of a vehicle ( 9 ) that is movable along a given guideway ( 1 ), comprising: data transmitters ( 2 , 11 ) stationarily disposed along said guideway ( 1 ) and provided with data; data acquisition units ( 21 ) mounted on the vehicle ( 9 ) and used for scanning the data transmitters ( 2 , 11 ) and for supplying data signals; and an evaluation device ( 24 ) connected to said data acquisition units ( 21 ) for evaluating the data signals, at least two of the data acquisition units ( 21 ) are connected to the evaluation device ( 24 ), wherein the evaluation device ( 24 ) has an output ( 25 ) for delivering safe status signals when and as long as at least two data acquisition units ( 21 ) supply matching data, and wherein the data transmitters ( 2 ) comprise second position transmitters provided with relative location data ( 3 ).