Methods and apparatus are described herein related to an environmental monitoring system configured to avoid spoilage of goods by alerting a supervisor to hazardous conditions. A cigar humidor may be monitored by placing a cigar-shaped and cigar-sized sensor-equipped component made from metal or cedar wood inside the humidor amongst the cigars. The sensors monitor a plurality of parameters, of which relative humidity is of particular importance for cigar humidors. One hazardous condition, which is tracked by the system is the absence of an airing event for a period greater than a pre-configured interval. Once an airing event has been absent for a long enough time period, either a pre-alert or a full alert is being issued. The system offers multiple alternative ways of detecting airing events including time series anomaly discovery algorithms with grammar-based compression.

The present invention relates generally to a packaging assembly. More particularly the present invention relates to a packet for holding similar and/or dissimilar objects wherein said packet facilitates dispensing of objects when desired and reclosing to secure the said objects. It can be used in applications like a cigarette packet and like containers. This invention provides an advantageous feature of doubly securing the objects in the container.

An aroma-tight cigarette pack with an outer pack (12) configured in the form of a hinge-lid box, and also with an inner pack (11) configured in the form of a sealed block with an opening aid which can be used a number of times. The opening aid has a removal opening (51) which extends in a sub-region of an inner front wall (39) and of an adjacent inner end wall (41) and is covered over by a closure label (54) with an adhesively bonding connecting periphery (55). The inner pack (11) has closure seams (37) which are designed in the form of fin seams.

A method and system for authenticating a variety of consumer products is provided. The system includes a plurality of near field communication (NFC) tags configured for coupling to a variety of consumer products, the tags programmed to provide identifying data associated with a single consumer product to an NFC-capable mobile computing device, a central database for storing said data, a server communicably connected to a communications network and configured to access the database, and a mobile application executing on a mobile computing device, configured to read said identifying data from the NFC tag, read an image marker from the consumer product, communicate said identifying data to the server, and view 3D renderings of the consumer product.

A method and system for authenticating a variety of consumer products is provided. The system includes a plurality of near field communication (NFC) tags configured for coupling to a variety of consumer products, the tags programmed to provide identifying data associated with a single consumer product to an NFC-capable mobile computing device, a central database for storing said data, a server communicably connected to a communications network and configured to access the database, and a mobile application executing on a mobile computing device, configured to read said identifying data from the NFC tag, read an image marker from the consumer product, communicate said identifying data to the server, and view 3D renderings of the consumer product.

A method for authenticating a consumer product includes coupling a near field communication (NFC) tag to a consumer product, wherein said NFC tag includes a printed representation of a unique product code (UPC), coupling a physical element to the consumer product wherein the physical element includes a visible printed representation of the UPC, executing an application on a computing device for reading an identifier from the NFC tag, transmitting it to a server, and displaying a UPC received from the server, such that a user may determine if the UPC that was received matches the printed representation of the UPC, and wherein the server is configured for receiving the identifier and transmitting the UPC associated with the identifier in a database record.

A method for authenticating a consumer product includes coupling a near field communication (NFC) tag to a consumer product, wherein said NFC tag includes a printed representation of a unique product code (UPC), coupling a physical element to the consumer product wherein the physical element includes a visible printed representation of the UPC, executing an application on a computing device for reading an identifier from the NFC tag, transmitting it to a server, and displaying a UPC received from the server, such that a user may determine if the UPC that was received matches the printed representation of the UPC, and wherein the server is configured for receiving the identifier and transmitting the UPC associated with the identifier in a database record.

An apparatus is described herein related to remote monitoring of perishable trade items in environmentally-controlled storage containers. Relevant changes in the container environment are detected through various sensors-based event detectors. A timer serves to trigger a plurality of distinct alert states, comprising pre-alerts and full alerts, following an event-initiated time threshold expiry. A data repository of generic merchandise data is accessed in order to derive suitable timer pre-sets in relation to time thresholds for alert states. An account configuration engine serves to customize the threshold presets to the specific items stored inside the container.

An apparatus is described herein related to remote monitoring of perishable trade items in environmentally-controlled storage containers. Relevant changes in the container environment are detected through various sensors-based event detectors. A timer serves to trigger a plurality of distinct alert states, comprising pre-alerts and full alerts, following an event-initiated time threshold expiry. A data repository of generic merchandise data is accessed in order to derive suitable timer pre-sets in relation to time thresholds for alert states. An account configuration engine serves to customize the threshold presets to the specific items stored inside the container.

A method for confirming regulatory entity registration of a consumer product and verifying age of a user of the consumer product includes coupling a radio frequency tag to the consumer product, storing in a database a record for each of a plurality of consumer products, and a record for each of a plurality of consumers, executing an application on a computing device for reading identifying data from the radio frequency tag and transmitting said data to a server that accesses a record in the database that corresponds to the product and transmitting a confirmation of regulatory entity registration of the consumer product to the application, wherein the application further reads user identification data and transmits it to the server which calculates an age of the user based on the user identification data, and if the age of the user is above a predefined age, then storing the user identification data.