AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THEREFOR
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1. An automotive vehicle comprising:
- one or more computers configured to,in a first mode of operation, receive and store, at a plurality of instances, inventory information about assets in a vicinity of the vehicle, and identify patterns in asset inventories based on the inventory information and a history of vehicle locations associated with the inventory information; and
in a second mode of operation, generate output representing at least one suggested vehicle destination based on the identified patterns and assets detected in the vicinity of the vehicle.
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Abstract
An automotive vehicle includes one or more computers. The one or more computers are configured to, in a first mode of operation, receive and store, at a plurality of instances, inventory information about assets in a vicinity of the vehicle, and identify patterns in asset inventories based on the inventory information and a history of vehicle locations associated with the inventory information. The one or more computers are also configured to, in a second mode of operation, generate output representing at least one suggested vehicle destination based on the identified patterns and assets detected in the vicinity of the vehicle.
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1. An automotive vehicle comprising:
one or more computers configured to, in a first mode of operation, receive and store, at a plurality of instances, inventory information about assets in a vicinity of the vehicle, and identify patterns in asset inventories based on the inventory information and a history of vehicle locations associated with the inventory information; and in a second mode of operation, generate output representing at least one suggested vehicle destination based on the identified patterns and assets detected in the vicinity of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An automotive vehicle comprising:
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one or more radio frequency receivers configured to detect signals generated by activated wireless identification tags in a vicinity of the vehicle, the signals representing identifiers embedded in the wireless identification tags; and one or more computers in communication with the receivers and configured to in a first mode of operation, record occurrences of detected identifiers, and identify a set of two or more tags based on the recorded occurrences, wherein the two or more tags have been together within the vicinity of the vehicle on more than a predetermined number of occasions, and in a second mode of operation, determine whether a particular detected tag belongs to the identified set, and determine whether other tags belonging to the identified set are also detected in the vicinity of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An asset management system comprising:
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one or more radio frequency transmitters configured to generate activation signals for wireless identification tags affixed to assets in a vicinity of the one or more transmitters; one or more radio frequency receivers configured to detect signals generated by activated wireless identification tags in the vicinity of the one or more transmitters, the signals representing identifiers embedded in the wireless identification tags; and one or more computers in communication with the transmitters and receivers and configured to in a first mode of operation, record occurrences of detected identifiers, and identify a set of two or more tags based on the recorded occurrences, wherein the two or more tags have been together within a vicinity of the one or more receivers on more than a predetermined number of occasions, and in a second mode of operation, determine whether a particular detected tag belongs to the identified set, determine whether other tags belonging to the identified set are also detected in the vicinity of the one or more receivers, and generate output representing an alert if any of the other tags belonging to the identified set are not in the vicinity of the one or more receivers. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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