Warwickshire College, located in the West Midlands region of England, turned to CoreRFID to help implement a new system for auditing the college’s IT assets. The college’s original system for managing IT assets was based on printed labels. Serial numbers from the labels were transcribed manually to spreadsheets creating a record of what equipment was where in the college. The audit process of checking labels and updating spreadsheets was both time consuming and prone to error, causing unnecessary costs and providing inaccurate information on the whereabouts of asset.
CoreRFID proposed a system using ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID tags attached to the assets. These carry an identity code that can be linked to each specific asset and can be read quickly and accurately by a handheld computer. The technology selected for the system included a compact, robust, handheld computer (the ATiD AB700) to could capture the details of assets and their location together with specialized tags designed specifically to cope with the challenges of IT asset tagging. Read more of this post