Clairvoyant Technology LLC

John Lourigan

Thomas James Frederick

Jason Lamb

Aspects and features of this disclosure use an RFID tag or other transponder embedded in an RFID antenna to provide a smart RFID antenna. The smart antenna can have a unique identity, at least in its system environment, and the identity can be readable by the RFID reader through a large insertion loss, providing the reader with the capability to accurately detect the antenna. A method of detecting a smart RFID antenna includes applying a transmit signal at a configured power level, and selectively increasing the configured power level of the transmit signal until detection. In some examples, the process also includes storing location and other useful information for the RFID antenna. In some examples, any or all of this location or other information can be written to a memory in the RFID antenna in addition to a database in the system.

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Union Grove, WI, United States of America

John Lourigan