Air sample tracking system and method

摘要

A system for tracking one or more subjects for collecting airborne contaminants. The system includes one or more subjects configured to collect air contaminants. Each of the one or more subjects includes an identification tag encoded with identification information identifying the each subject. The system further includes an identification reader configured to decode the identification information encoded within the identification tag of a scanned one of the one or more identification tags. A computer receives and stores the decoded identification information in a record in a database. The computer may also receive and stored an identification code for a user who scanned the scanned identification tag in the record in the database. Additional records in the database are created each time the identification tag of one of the one or more subjects is scanned. The one or more subjects are thereby tracked as they collect airborne contaminants and are incubated.

主权项

1. A system for tracking air contaminants, the system comprising:
a contaminant-collection device; an identification tag associated with the contaminant-collection device, the tag encoded with identification information identifying the contaminant-collection device; a first location tag encoded with first location information identifying a first location in which the contaminant-collection device collects the air contaminants; a second location tag encoded with second location information identifying a second location of the contaminant-collection device after collecting the air contaminants; a first identification reader configured to:
scan the identification tag at the first location;decode the identification information encoded within the scanned identification tag;scan the first location tag; anddecode the first location information encoded within the scanned first location tag; a second identification reader configured to:
scan the identification tag at the second location;decode the identification information encoded within the scanned identification tag scanned by the second identification reader;scan the second location tag; anddecode the second location information encoded within the scanned second location tag; and a processing device configured to:
receive and store the decoded identification information from the first and second identification readers;receive and store the decoded first location information from the first identification reader; andreceive and store the decoded second location information from the second identification reader.