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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd., Grand Cayman, KY;
Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
A control unit of the article processing terminal controls a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader of the article processing terminal to periodically scan a plurality of short-range articles. In response to a status change of an article of the plurality of short-range articles, the control unit receives an article identifier of the article from the RFID reader. The control unit controls a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) module of the article processing terminal to send an article change message to a LPWAN gateway, where the article change message includes the article identifier and an address of an application server, and where the LPWAN gateway instructs, based on the article change message and the address, the application server to perform a next processing step on the article identified by the article identifier.