---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000001890"
title: "Apparatus, method, and system for wide to short range wireless communication conversion"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:09:19.617583Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001890"
categories:
  - "material-handling/conveying-systems"
keywords:
  - "b65g49/07"
  - "g05b19/4189"
  - "g05b19/4189"
  - "h04w4/30"
  - "h04w4/40"
  - "b65g49/02"
---

# Apparatus, method, and system for wide to short range wireless communication conversion

## Abstract

A communication apparatus includes a wide-area wireless communicator to transmit and receive information to and from a transport vehicle via a wireless access point through wide-area wireless communication, a short-range wireless communicator to transmit and receive information to and from a communication device through short-range wireless communication with a communication range narrower than a communication range of the wide-area wireless communication, and a controller configured or programmed to convert the information received by the wide-area wireless communicator from wide-area wireless communication information into short-range wireless communication information, and output the short-range wireless communication information to the short-range wireless communicator, and convert the information received by the short-range wireless communicator from short-range wireless communication information into wide-area wireless communication information, and output the wide-area wireless communication information to the wide-area wireless communicator.