| abstract |
A system for transferring data from a portable data capturing device to a data processing means, the system comprising: a wireless communications means for transmitting data from said data capturing device to the data processing means, the wireless commu-nications means comprising a transmitter in communication with said data capturing device and a receiver in communication with the data storage means, the transmitter having a finite transmission range; and a buffer in communication with said data capturing device for temporar-ily storing at least some of the data captured by the said data capturing device; wherein data which is temporarily stored in the buffer is only transmitted to the receiver when the receiver is located within the trans-mission range of the transmitter. |