RFID Tracking System for Package and Personnel Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for tracking objects during transportation are prone to human errors and inefficiencies, particularly in ensuring packages follow the optimum route and are correctly placed within vehicles or warehouses, leading to potential missed deliveries and customer dissatisfaction.
Innovation Solution
A system and method using radio frequency identification (RFID) or other wireless technologies to correlate objects and people, providing predictive, real-time, or logged information to associate space-time-environmental characteristics, ensuring accurate tracking and placement of packages by instrumenting both objects and individuals, and utilizing a dual tracking system with active RFID tags for precise location determination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual tracking methods are used to monitor package location, then system complexity is low, but tracking accuracy and reliability deteriorate due to human errors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual tracking systems with an automated electronic tracking system using RFID tags and readers. The system automatically captures package location data at scanning points along the delivery route, eliminating human error while maintaining manageable system complexity through standardized hardware components and automated data processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The tracking system operates autonomously by automatically detecting RFID tags at scanning points and recording location data without requiring manual intervention. The system self-manages data collection, processing, and comparison with route information to determine compliance automatically.
2Reliability
If automated RFID tracking system is implemented to improve tracking accuracy, then tracking reliability improves, but implementation cost and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tracking system is divided into independent modular components: RFID tags attached to packages, RFID readers positioned at scanning points, and a central processing system. Each component performs a specific function, allowing the system to achieve high reliability through specialized subsystems while managing overall complexity through clear separation of responsibilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The RFID tracking system serves multiple functions: automatic package identification, location tracking, route compliance verification, and data logging. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into a single integrated platform, improving reliability without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Manufacturing precision
If dual tracking system with RFID tags is used to ensure correct route following, then delivery accuracy improves, but cost of instrumentation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses inexpensive RFID tags that can be attached to packages for a single delivery cycle. These disposable tags provide reliable tracking information throughout the delivery process and are then discarded or reused, keeping the per-package instrumentation cost low while maintaining high delivery accuracy through automated verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The RFID tags act as intermediaries between the package and the tracking system, providing automatic identification and location data without requiring direct interaction between human operators and packages. This intermediary layer enables accurate automated tracking while reducing the need for expensive manual monitoring processes.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This approach reduces human errors, improves efficiency in package movement and placement, ensures packages follow the correct route, and minimizes missed deliveries by accurately tracking objects and people, enhancing customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
The present invention generally relates to the field of tagging of objects and people with radio transponders
Data Source
AI summary
A method for tracking objects, including identifying and locating an object using a first method, identifying and locating a person using a second method, and associating the object and the person.