CPC G06F 3/0485 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A system for use with:
an area;
a plurality of tags, each tag being movable in and around the area, having at least one sensor and being adapted to wirelessly broadcast an identifier and, for each of said at least one sensor, a reading;
receiver apparatus for identifying, via analysis of the wireless broadcasts of the tags, for each of the plurality of tags in the area, a specific location for said each tag and for receiving the identifiers and readings; and
a plurality of zones defined within the area, the system comprising:
a plurality of user-defined workflows, each user-defined workflow having one or more one trigger conditions, each trigger condition being associated with at least one of a zone and a tag and being a function of one or more of a plurality of predetermined trigger criteria; and
one or more associated actions selected from a plurality of predetermined actions, and
control apparatus adapted to:
receive the identifiers and readings from the receiver apparatus;
determine based upon the identifiers and readings if any of the one or more trigger conditions of any of the workflows has been met, and
automatically take the one or more actions associated with each workflow having the one or more trigger conditions thereof determined to have been met,
wherein the control apparatus comprises a computing functionality adapted to display a representation of the area, the zones and the tags in the area,
wherein the computing functionality is configured for user definition of the zones by the creation of a boundary on the display with one or more of a mouse, importing, stylus or touchscreen.
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