Inventors:
Vincent B. Blaignan - Corning NY, US
James Patrick Trice - Corning NY, US
Richard Edward Wagner - Painted Post NY, US
Dale Alan Webb - Corning NY, US
Matthew Scott Whiting - Lawrenceville PA, US
International Classification:
G06K 7/01, G06K 19/073
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag event occurrence detection, generation, and monitoring. Related components, RFID readers, systems, and methods are also disclosed. The RFID tags are configured to sense an event(s) that occurred in the RFID tag or in proximity thereto. In response, the RFID tags are configured to set an event occurrence indicator(s) in a memory of the RFID tag indicating the occurrence of the sensed event(s). A RFID reader is configured to perform a query of a population of RFID tags in communication range to detect which RFID tags have a set event occurrence indicator(s), so a RFID reader can then specifically communiate with RFID tags that experienced an event(s) to request and service the event(s) type without having to perform those same operations for the entire RFID tag population. The RFID reader can be configured to take desired actions based on detection of events.