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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2018
Teletracking Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Stephen S. Jackson, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
TeleTracking Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
An example embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a rotatable tag affixed to a moveable object, a signal to wake the rotatable tag affixed to a moveable object, wherein the rotatable tag comprises a tag having more than one indicator associated with a use state of a moveable object, wherein a current use state of the moveable object is indicated by a visual indication on the rotatable tag and transmitted to at least one receiver; providing, from the rotatable tag affixed to a moveable object, identification information associated with the moveable object; transmitting, from the rotatable tag affixed to a moveable object, location data to the at least one receiver; and transmitting, from the rotatable tag affixed to a moveable object, use state information derived from the current use state of the rotatable tag and is associated with the moveable object. Related systems are also provided herein.