Asset Tracking

Technology Connection automates the real-time discovery, tracking, monitoring and management of high-value physical assets found in diverse environments including:

• Data centers and geographically dispersed areas such as bank branches
• Financial, healthcare and manufacturing enterprises
• Government agencies and educational institutions

Customers and partners use award-winning active RFID hardware/software for many applications, including IT asset tracking, real-time inventory tracking/ordering, inventory audits, personnel/patient tracking and security.

Solutions:

Technology Connection provides an active RFID-enabled infrastructure for both real-time asset management and environmental monitoring across the entire lifecycle, from arrival to deployment through retirement. Using active RFID as the enabling technology to automate asset monitoring, our solutions eliminate the traditional costly, time consuming and inaccurate asset and environmental monitoring process. Customers know, in real-time, precise and actionable information about the location, status and state of their physical assets. Having such dynamic asset information instantly and at all times leads to better decision making about asset inventory. The result is better audit compliance, inventory accuracy, security and environmental status awareness, and typically at a cost lower than any other solutions.

Moreover, ROI usually is achieved within a year.

Readers:

Technology Connection's family of 433 MHz Active Readers are used in a variety of environments and situations that call for asset tracking. When deployed in concert with Technology Connection Active RFID tags, our readers give customers an unparalleled asset tracking solution that provides location precision for all tagged assets, from the rack-level, through the room-level, to the extended enterprise. Our readers are easily installed and work well in both wired and wireless network environments.

We offer:

• Fixed readers for traditional asset tracking deployments
• Rack-mountable readers for use in high density data center environments
• Mobile readers that capture asset and inventory information in remote locations outside of the range of fixed readers

Asset Tags:

All Technology Connection asset tags feature encoded radio transmissions, low power consumption for long battery life and reduced maintenance costs, and superior anti-collision technology for high-tag densities. Tags can include motion and tamper detection sensors, customizable beacon rates, and a broad variety of mounting and enclosure options. Form factors include:

• General purpose tags for use with virtually any asset
• Compact and thin tags used for tracking laptops
• Rack tags that ensure clear signal transmission in high-density rack and data center deployments.
• Badge and wristband tags for tracking and monitoring personnel

Software:

Technology Connection provides real-time asset management software that provides up-to-the minute information about an asset's exact location and movement, security and environmental status, without requiring any manual labor to gather this information. With a Web 2.0-based user interface, Asset Manager gives customers the flexibility to easily configure the solution according to their organizational needs and reconfigure when those needs shift. Software features include:

• A fully customizable asset database schema
• Asset lifecycle management capability
• Customer-defined condition thresholds and alerting
• Scheduled and ad-hoc reports:
  Moreover, customers can choose the level of asset location visibility that most closely corresponds to their particular organization.
• Zonal coverage for distributed assets in buildings
• Rack level coverage for IT assets in the data center