A laboratory system, comprising: at least one rack comprising retainers, wherein the rack is adapted to carry laboratory sample containers inserted in the retainers, a handling device, wherein the handling device is adapted to insert sample containers in the retainers or remove containers from the retainers being placed at a processing position depending on location information indicating the location of the rack being placed at the processing position relative to the handling device, a plurality of teaching devices, wherein a respective teaching device is insertable into a retainer of the rack, and wherein at least two teaching devices are inserted into a corresponding retainer of the rack being placed at the processing position, and a location information calculating device, wherein the calculating device is adapted to calculate the location information of the rack being placed at the processing position depending on the location of the at least two teaching devices.

Methods and systems for managing a petri-dish. Embodiments herein disclose a RFID tag affixed on the petri-dish, wherein the RFID tag has a thin formfactor, so as not to interfere in the use and operation of the petri-dish and a sufficiently large readability range. Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for RFID based asset tracking of petri-dishes in a laboratory/pharmaceutical/manufacturing environment, wherein the movement of the petri-dishes are tracked automatically with minimal manual intervention.

A method for determining an indicator of a bodily condition in an image of a bodily fluid testing equipment captured by an electronic device is provided. The method comprises acquiring image data of a bodily fluid testing equipment (100, 200), determining at least one edge (539) of a first bodily fluid testing region (109, 209), determining a location of the first bodily fluid testing region, sampling colour data of a sub-region (541) of the first bodily fluid testing region, determining, based upon the sampled colour data, whether an indicator of a bodily condition has interacted with the first bodily testing region and providing an output, wherein the output is based upon whether the indicator of the bodily condition has interacted with the first bodily fluid testing region.

An application-analysable bodily fluid testing equipment (100, 200, 300) is provided. The application-analysable bodily fluid testing equipment comprises at least one testing region (109, 209, 309) sensitive to an indicator of a bodily condition in bodily fluid from which image data is capturable and analysable by an associated application on a device. The bodily fluid testing equipment further comprises a handling indicator (107, 207, 307) indicating an area of the equipment for a user to hold during the application of a bodily fluid to the at least one testing region, and during capture of the image data for analysis of the bodily fluid applied to the at least one testing region using the application on the device.

A method for determining an indicator of a bodily condition in an image of a bodily fluid testing equipment captured by an electronic device is provided. The method comprises determining colour data of a first bodily fluid testing region (109, 209) of a bodily fluid testing equipment (100, 200) from image data of the bodily fluid testing equipment, determining colour calibration data of at least one background sub-region (543) of a background region (545) of the bodily fluid testing equipment, calibrating the colour data based upon the determined colour calibration data, determining whether an indicator of a bodily condition has interacted with the first bodily fluid testing region, and providing an output, wherein the output is based upon whether the indicator of the bodily condition has interacted with the first bodily fluid testing region.

A lateral flow bodily fluid testing system is provided. The system comprises an application-analysable bodily fluid testing equipment (100, 200, 300) and an electronic device (1001) comprising a camera (1002) and one or more processors (1004). The one or more processors are configured to acquire image data of the application-analysable bodily fluid testing equipment with the camera of the electronic device, perform testing of bodily fluid applied to the application-analysable bodily fluid testing equipment using the image data to determine whether indicators of one or more bodily conditions are present in the applied bodily fluid, and output a result indicating whether the indicators of one or more bodily conditions are present in the applied bodily fluid.

An automatic authentication method includes an identification code reading step of reading an identification code assigned to an article from an apparatus side. The method includes a password part generation reproduction step of reproducing a procedure for generating a second password part according to a predetermined random character creation rule based on characters included in an identification information part and a first password part of the read identification code. The method includes a password collation step of collating the second password part generated by the reproduction with a second password part of the identification code of the article read by the identification code reading step. The method includes authentication steps of authenticating the article as a genuine product when the collated second password parts match each other.

A system for performing a molecular analysis workflow includes a reaction holder or a reaction substrate, such as a multi-well reaction plate, with a reaction holder/substrate RFID tag, and/or a reagent container with a reagent container RFID tag, and an instrument and/or device that includes an RFID reader/writer operable to read and/or write information to and from the reaction holder/substrate RFID tag and/or the reagent container RFID tag. The reaction holder/substrate RFID tag and the reagent container RFID tag can be utilized separately or together to send and receive and store information, for example, for a workflow of a molecular analysis, such as a polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

A system for performing a molecular analysis workflow includes a reaction holder or a reaction substrate, such as a multi-well reaction plate, with a reaction holder/substrate RFID tag, and/or a reagent container with a reagent container RFID tag, and an instrument and/or device that includes an RFID reader/writer operable to read and/or write information to and from the reaction holder/substrate RFID tag and/or the reagent container RFID tag. The reaction holder/substrate RFID tag and the reagent container RFID tag can be utilized separately or together to send and receive and store information, for example, for a workflow of a molecular analysis, such as a polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

The automatic analyzer includes: a device state managing unit that manages a device state of the automatic analyzer; an abnormality detecting unit that detects abnormality of the automatic analyzer based on information of the device state managed by the device state managing unit and a predetermined reference; an alarm planning unit that plans at least two alarms including an abnormality occurrence alarm and an handling available alarm regarding each of abnormality items detected by the abnormality detecting unit, the abnormality occurrence alarm being planned for notification to a user in a case where the abnormality occurs, and the handling available alarm being planned for notification to the user in a case where the automatic analyzer is in a device state where the automatic analyzer is available for handling the abnormality; and a notifying unit that notifies the alarms planned by the alarm planning unit.