Patent attributes
System for identifying and managing pallets, which are placed at or picked up from bin locations by means of an industrial truck, with the following characteristics: a box-shaped housing, which contains all components required for communicating with transponders as well as evaluating signals from the transponders, in particular a read/write unit, a send/receive circuit and an evaluation unit, wherein the evaluation unit has an interface to an on-board, the box-shaped housing is attached to the bottom side of the lower cross bar of a support for the loading fork between the fork arms, a single transponder is attached to the front side of the middle block of the pallet, and/or a rack support at the entrance that faces the industrial truck is provided with a transponder on a longitudinal support.