A system and method for managing information related to marine activities and selectively sharing such information is provided. The system is designed to collect environmental data and create buoy profiles that may be analyzed by users to scout environmental conditions that may be conducive to catching fish in certain geolocations. Buoy profiles are updated in real time by fisherman using the system. The system is also designed to collect information pertaining to a catch and create an activity profile that may be analyzed by users to scout optimal geolocations in which to catch fish. A user's activity profiles may be shared with other users or kept private depending on permission levels within the system. Additionally, the system is designed to alert users of dangerous weather conditions and optimal fishing geolocations based on the buoy profiles and environmental states created by the system.

Provided is an antenna device that performs the reading of information via near field wireless communication by using a plurality of antenna patterns, and that has no insensitive area on the touch surface. An antenna device that reads information via near field wireless communication includes an antenna layer 20 that includes a plurality of antenna patterns 21a to 21l arrayed in parallel with one another, wherein at least a part of the antenna patterns 21a to 21l are arranged so as to overlap with one another when the antenna layer 20 is viewed in a plan view.

In various embodiments, a system and a method for managing inventory are provided. The system may include: a plurality of weighing devices, at least a memory, at least a processor. The weighing devices are configured to weight at least an object. The processor is configured to receive data from at least one weighing device relating to the at least one object weighed by the respective weighing device, and to store the received data in the memory. The processor is further configured to determine at least a matching of data received from a first weighing device with data received from a second weighing device.

A wireless mesh network including a leader node and a plurality of follower nodes is provided. The leader node transmits a sync message to the plurality of follower nodes indicating a beginning of a network interval. The leader node and the plurality of follower nodes transmit information during a transmission period of the network interval and do not transmit information during a sleep period of the network interval. The leader node and the plurality of follower nodes use less power in the sleep period than in the transmission period; and the plurality of follower nodes each include a timer adapted to time the transmission period and the sleep period for each of a plurality of future network intervals in an absence of continued receipt of the sync message from the leader node during the plurality of future network intervals.

A network for connecting a plurality of network nodes including a leader node and a plurality of follower nodes is provided. The leader node transmits a sync message to the plurality of follower nodes indicating a beginning of a network interval. The sync message contains data indicating a number of network nodes in the network. The leader node and the plurality of follower nodes transmit information during a transmission period of the network interval and do not transmit information during a sleep period of the network interval. The network interval is of a fixed length of time, the transmission period is of a variable length of time based upon the number of network nodes in the network, and the sleep period includes remaining time of the network interval after the transmission period.

An on-board device is equipped with: an RFIC which includes an activation processing unit for outputting an activation signal upon receiving a radio wave for RFID communication and an RF tag function unit for reading prerecorded tag information; an IC card processing unit which is activated on the basis of the activation signal when electric power is supplied thereto from a power supply circuit, and which reads and writes IC card information from and to an IC card; and a communication unit which transmits the tag information and/or the IC card information to an external device.

A wearable device receives ticket information for an event and information indicating a quantity of funds allocated from an account, associated with a user of a user device, to the wearable device, and stores the ticket information and the information indicating the quantity of funds. The wearable device utilizes a wireless component to pair the wearable device and the user device, and provides, to the user device and via the wireless component, the ticket information and information indicating access privileges for the event. The wearable device generates a token for a PoS device for a charge incurred at the event during an offline transaction with the PoS device, and provides, via a NFC component, the token to the PoS device. The wearable device provides, to the user device and via the wireless component, information indicating that that the token was provided to the PoS device.

A system (1; 21) for processing at least one request of at least one mobile device (6; 17) using at least one first processing device (9; 18) and a final processing device (4; 19) of the system (1; 21), wherein the mobile device (6; 17) is configured to process a request application, by which a request information (8) characterized by a request identification information (7) and status information on the progress of the processing of the request are communicated between the mobile device (6; 17) and the first processing device (9; 18) and may be displayed on a display (12) of the mobile device (6; 17) and wherein the first processing device (9; 18) is configured to pre-process the request information (8) and to transmit, directly or via further processing devices (13, 14), to the final processing device (4; 19), and wherein the final processing device (4; 19) is configured to store identity identification information (5) clearly identifying a user of the system (1; 21) and/or his/her mobile device (6; 17), wherein there is provided an information collection device (15; 22), which is configured to associate the information received by the processing devices (4, 9, 13, 14; 18, 19) or by the mobile device (6; 17) of the system (1; 21) with the respective requests of the mobile devices (6; 17), in order to determine the current status information of each request of each mobile device (6; 17), for which purpose there is carried out, in the case of the absence of the request identification information (7) required for a clear association and/or identity identification information (5), a best possible association by way of the further pieces of information contained in the request information (8) and that the information collection device (15; 22) is configured to transmit the determined current status information of the respective request to the respective mobile device (6; 17).

An intelligent tracking system generally includes one or more tracking devices, some of which may be passive tracking devices. Each passive tracking device includes one or more transceivers and is energized by an energizing signal. Some of these passive tracking devices may operate in a first communication mode or a second communication mode based on the energizing signal. Some tracking devices may include encryption modules or authentication modules. Some of these devices may incorporate a bulk acoustic wave oscillator.

A near-field communication device operates to transmit data by near-field communications techniques to another device. The near-field communication device includes a memory that stores a message to be transmitted in an ASCII format. The message is retrieved from the memory and transmitted using the near-field communications techniques in an ASCII format.