A system for a warehouse

• Main Authors: David Edgar, Milos Bozic, Matthew Wroe
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.05.2024
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; TESTING

A system for monitoring air quality in a warehouse. The system comprises: a mobile sensor system 209 for attaching to a vehicle 210 (e.g. a forklift truck) that moves around the warehouse. The mobile sensor system comprises: an RFID antenna 211 configured to provide RFID-signalling representative of one or more RFID tags 218 that are at fixed locations in the warehouse; and an air quality sensor 212 configured to provide air-quality-signalling representing a sensed air quality value (e.g. relating to particulate matter or CO2). The system for monitoring air quality further comprises a controller 213 configured to: process the RFID-signalling to determine an antenna-location that represents the location of the RFID antenna when the RFID-signalling was acquired; associate the air-quality-signalling with the determined antenna-location that was acquired at substantially the same time; and provide an air-quality-output-signal based on the association between the air-quality-signalling and the determined antenna-location. The vehicle could also comprise a second antenna and other environmental sensors.