Method and apparatus for detecting the position of laboratorial equipment items associated with any kind of laboratory instruments, each laboratorial equipment item thereof

摘要

The objective is the design of an innovative technique for the auto detection and data management of any kind of laboratory equipment that can be used with pipetting and analytical instruments. The main idea is to identify and manage the data of laboratory equipment by placing electronic radio frequency tags (RFID tags) and by using special RFID sensors/readers. The tags will provide the type and location of the laboratory equipment on the layout of the instrument and during the process of the identification they will also store data relative to the laboratory equipment such as available volume, liquid types etc., and the sensors will locate and identify the equipment and at the same time interact with the tags for reading and storing information. RFID tags meet the requirements both from a technical aspect since they vary in size and capacity but also from a technological aspect since they provide the proper interface for write/read through the sensors.