| 摘要 |
The invention provides for a data collection system, and specifically provides a means for the tracking of beer kegs by electronic means. Each beer keg is provided with a bar code, and the tracking system comprises a main frame computer which contains information representing all of the kegs and their locations e.g. at breweries or places of consumption and whether they are full or empty, a plurality of delivery vehicles for the kegs, each carrying its own computer, and the vehicle computers being adapted to receive in holders hand-held readers for reading the bar codes in the kegs. The readers can be detached from the holders so as to be used remotely from the cab computers, and the readers have electronic coupling devices so that when they are inserted in the holders, the read information can be downloaded from the holders into the cab computers in order to be processed. By the use of this system a track can be kept at all times on each and every keg which has its own unique code, and this leads to effective tracking of the kegs with the objective of eliminating steeling of such kegs. The invention has wider application than the tracking of kegs. |
