PORTABLE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER FOR REAL TIME LOCATION SYSTEMS

摘要

The present invention discloses a portable RFID reader device (102) that comprises of a first transceiver (110) integrated with a first antenna (112) and a second transceiver (118) integrated with a second antenna (120) housed within a common housing (104) and in communication with one another via a physical electrical interconnection. The first transceiver (110) being an RFID transceiver in combination with a portion of a controller (108) designated for RFID reader functionality perform the functions of a RFID reader (106). The second transceiver (118) being an end device transceiver is in combination with a portion of a controller (116) designated for performing computations related to the information received by the end device transceiver (118) from a host (134) from an end device (114).