US Patent 7387243 System for identifying and managing pallets

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.