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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2020
Building Materials Investment Corporation, Dallas, TX (US);
Igor Alovert, Morristown, NJ (US);
Building Materials Investment Corporation, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary system that includes radio frequency (RF) tags; positioned at locations throughout a roof; a tag reader configured to: generate reader RF signals at one or more frequencies to read the plurality of RF tags, and detect return RF signals from the plurality of RF tags; where the RF signals carry tag data comprising impedance values and tag identifiers; a processor of a computing device, programmed to receive the tag data; determine corresponding locations of the plurality of RF tags; and determine a wet state or dry state of the roof at one or more corresponding locations, and output an indicator of the wet state or the dry state of the roof at the one or more corresponding locations.