Abstract: System (10) for remotely controlling and monitoring a food refrigerator (1), and its content, of the type intended to be given in rental or in free loan from a manufacturer to a vendor of cold products, comprising a control unit (2) for checking and storing a plurality of functioning parameters of the food refrigerator (1), an RFID reader (3) intended to read data stored in a plurality of RFID tags attached to the cold products, a communication unit (4) for interconnecting an external device, the RFID reader (3) comprising means for retrieving data from said RFID tags when the cold products are still stocked inside the food refrigerator (1) and the communication unit (4) localization means for transmitting information to the external device about a geographical localization of the food refrigerator (1). System (10) according to claim 1 wherein said means produce a radio frequency signal at predetermined time intervals for activating said RFID tags.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2009
Date of Patent:
July 12, 2011
Assignee:
Smartfreeze S.r.l.
Inventors:
Luigi Glielmo, Davide Del Cogliano, Corrado De Santis
Abstract: System (10) for remotely controlling and monitoring a food refrigerator (1), and its content, of the type intended to be given in rental or in free loan from a manufacturer to a vendor of cold products, comprising a control unit (2) for checking and storing a plurality of functioning parameters of the food refrigerator (1), an RFID reader (3) intended to read data stored in a plurality of RFID tags attached to the cold products, a communication unit (4) for interconnecting an external device, the RFID reader (3) comprising means for retrieving data from said RFID tags when the cold products are still stocked inside the food refrigerator (1) and the communication unit (4) localization means for transmitting information to the external device about a geographical localization of the food refrigerator (1). System (10) according to claim 1 wherein said means produce a radio frequency signal at predetermined time intervals for activating said RFID tags.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 18, 2009
Publication date:
October 14, 2010
Applicant:
SMARTFREEZE S.r.l.
Inventors:
Luigi Glielmo, Davide Del Cogliano, Corrado De Santis
Abstract: System (10) for remotely controlling and monitoring a food refrigerator (1), and its content, of the type intended to be given in rental or in free loan from a manufacturer to a vendor of cold products, comprising a control unit (2) for checking and storing a plurality of functioning parameters of the food refrigerator (1), an RFID reader (3) intended to read data stored in a plurality of RFID tags attached to the cold products, a communication unit (4) for interconnecting an external device, the RFID reader (3) comprising means for retrieving data from said RFID tags when the cold products are still stocked inside the food refrigerator (1) and the communication unit (4) localization means for transmitting information to the external device about a geographical localization of the food refrigerator (1). System (10) according to claim 1 wherein said means produce a radio frequency signal at predetermined time intervals for activating said RFID tags.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 23, 2006
Date of Patent:
February 9, 2010
Assignee:
Smartfreeze S.r.l.
Inventors:
Luigi Glielmo, Davide Del Cogliano, Corrado De Santis
Abstract: System (20) for remotely controlling and monitoring a food refrigerator (1) of the type intended to be given in rental or in free loan from a manufacturer to a vendor of cold products, comprising a control unit (2) for checking and storing a plurality of functioning parameters of the food refrigerator (1), an RFID reader (3) intended to read data stored in a plurality of RFID tags attached to the cold products, a communication unit (4) for interconnecting an external device, the RFID reader (3) comprising means for retrieving the data from the RFID tags when the cold products are stocked inside the food refrigerator (1) and the communication unit (4) comprising localization means for transmitting information to the external device on a geographical localization of the food refrigerator (1).
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 5, 2007
Publication date:
November 19, 2009
Applicant:
SMARTFREEZE S.r.l.
Inventors:
Luigi Glielmo, Davide Del Cogliano, Corrado De Santis