RFID System Features and Function Overview

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The benefits of the creation of a comprehensive RFID system are obvious. To be able to locate virtually anything that requires tracking substantially increases visibility to valuable and "critical" items any one of which may significantly impact a companies' ability to effectively service their clients' needs or meet manufacturing schedules.

It is not unusual for even the most technologically advanced companies to attempt to maintain control and location information of these assets through use of rigid paper based procedures or through the use of spreadsheets or other human reliant solutions.

Other companies will purchase redundant equipment in anticipation of losing critical equipment or assets. Both of these solutions are doomed to fail as has been proven over and over again as is any system that completely relies upon manual input. It just does not happen.

The introduction of a RFID tracking system will provide an automated, self maintaining platform that will allow any company to dynamically identify, track and locate every item that has been determined to require same.

RFID Asset Tracking and Management:

In order to manage assets, it must be possible to track them and get accurate, timely data on their locations and status. By automating the process, passive UHF RFID can remove the error factor that is introduced by direct human involvement in asset tracking.

Asset tracking and Asset Management should provide the following information and capabilities:

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• Where your assets are currently
• Where were they previously?
• Who handled your assets last?
• When were they handled last?
• Tools to find and locate the assets
• How many assets are in a given location?
• Provide a real time interface to query asset data
• Provide a simple, reliable, user friendly way to move assets

With these capabilities and this information, a company can track, identify, reposition, and redeploy its assets in the most efficient and effective way possible.