Self describing RFID chains to validate parts in bills-of-material or manifest when disconnected from server

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed to track items transported in a container having a network; first and second home servers coupled to the network and communicating with first and second wireless nodes, respectively, wherein the first node is authorized to communicate with the first home server and the second node is authorized to communicate with the second home server; the first node caching relationships among one or more items of the container by writing the relationships on a memory attached to that container; shipping the container to a destination; and at the second node, scanning the memory to determine whether the transported one or more items arrived at the destination; a registration server coupled to the network and adapted to assign the first node to the first home server and the second node to the second home server; and an enterprise computer coupled to the network to query the nodes.