A method for tracking procedures performed on personal protection equipment (PPE) and actions of individuals includes the following steps. An article of PPE configured with a smart tag is provided to an individual prior to performance of a task. After the individual performs the task, the article of PPE is processed. Information is retrieved from the smart tag during at least one of: before, during and after processing the article of PPE. After the performance of the task, the individual's data is read and the individual enters into a designated area.

A food and beverage supply device provided with a main body (10) including a container placing table (10a), a reader (15) that includes an antenna (15a) arranged adjacent to the container placing table (10a), transmits an electromagnetic wave from the antenna (15a) to a container (100) placed on the container placing table (10a), and reads identification information of an identifier (100a) attached to the container (100), and a controller (13) that controls the main body (10) so as to specify a type of food and beverage to be supplied to the container (100) on the basis of the identification information of the identifier (100a), and supply a specified type of food and beverage to the container (100).

A portable transaction module to be placed at a space where business transactions between a teller and a customer are performed is provided. The portable transaction module includes a portable unit, and a customer-side digital module unit, for inputting information necessary for the business transactions, mounted at one side of the portable unit.

A settlement device includes a scale that measures a first total weight of commodities; a wireless tag reader that reads, from a wireless tag attached to each of the commodities, a commodity code; and a camera that acquires an image of the commodities. A controller is configured to register the commodity codes; calculate, based on data that correlates commodity codes and commodity weights, a second total weight of the commodities corresponding to the commodity codes registered by the controller; recognize the commodities from the image; when the first total weight and second total weight do not coincide, register an additional commodity code that (a) was not read by the wireless tag reader and (b) correlates to one of the commodities recognized from the image; and when the first total weight and the second total weight coincide, perform settlement processing for the registered commodities.

Example methods and apparatuses to indicate off-platter weigh conditions are disclosed herein. An example barcode reading and weighing apparatus includes a weigh platter; a scale; an off-platter detection assembly configured to detect an off-platter weigh condition; a processor in communication with the scale and the off-platter detection assembly; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the barcode reading and weighing apparatus to, responsive to detecting the off platter condition: compose a weight-conveying message, the weight-conveying message including (i) a weight-conveying field having the weight encoded therein and (ii) overhead information, the overhead information being operative, when the weight-conveying message is received by a POS system, to cause the POS system to not accept the weight for the transaction, the overhead information also not indicating the off-platter weigh condition to the POS system; and send the weight-conveying message to the POS system.

A system and method are provided for photographing vehicles in a deployable photobooth structure that avoids corner lighting issues common with angular shaped photobooths. The walls of the photobooth are made of an opaque fabric or panels. A frame supports photographic lighting, as well as rods from which the fabric that forms the walls is hung. The photobooth itself may be hung from a ceiling and deployed downward or retracted upward to a ceiling. The photobooth may also be mobile and used in outdoor settings. If not hung, vertical support legs may be used to support the frame above the floor or ground. Low volume car photos are obtained where a user walks about the inside perimeter of the photobooth and takes a series of photographs or video. The images or video may then be manipulated by computer to provide seamless reflection free 360 degree images.

A system and method for error correction using radiofrequency identification (RFID) signals. The method includes analyzing one or more signal properties of received RFID tag data obtained from location tag(s) associated with one or more predetermined locations and item tag(s) associated with one or more items in the scan zone. The current location of the items is calculated based on the analyzed signal properties, such as, but not limited to, signal strength. If an item is located in the correct location, the assigned location of the item is verified. If the current location of the item differs from an expected location, the item location data for that item is updated with the current location of the item in a data store. Error correction data is generated, which can include updating the item location and/or providing instructions to move the item from the item's current location to the assigned item location.

A neonatal care system includes a platform for supporting an infant, a plurality of part tags each embedded in a part within the neonatal care device, and at least one part reader. Each of the plurality of part tags is configured to transmit a part identifier and the at least one part reader is configured to receive the part identifiers transmitted from the plurality of the part tags. A controller is configured to store at least one part identifier catalog, receive the part identifiers from the part reader, and compare the part identifiers generated by the plurality of part tags to the at least one part identifier catalog. If any of the received part identifiers does not match the at least one part identifier catalog, then an alert is generated.

A self-contained, mobile Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) asset tracker and hardware assembly and method of use thereof. The mobile RFID asset tracker includes a frame mounted on locking swivel casters which provide a mobile base for mounting of an RFID antenna, RFID reader and other electrical equipment thereon. An electronics control box, which is adjustably mounted on the frame, houses the RFID reader, a custom Printed Circuit Board (PCB) control module, cellular and WIFI modems, and a power source. The electronics control box is operatively engaged via Input/Output (IO) ports and cabling to an external indicator assembly and to the external adjustably mounted RFID antenna.

Systems for determining a price of goods, reducing food waste, optimizing markdowns for the goods, and controlling prices of the goods in a retail setting are described. A scanner scans a readable identification tag affixed to a good during a time period. A pricing engine of at least one server queries, dynamically and in real-time, a database to identify, from the readable identification tag, the good and the information associated with the good. The pricing engine then applies algorithms to the identified good to calculate a price of the good and modify the calculated price of the good during the time period to optimize a target function. The optimization of the target function depends on price-calculation factors associated with a shelf-state of the good and associated with a future stock of the good. At least one calculated price based on the expiration date of the good is displayed.