RFID tags, barcode labels and the hardware to read them

Walk the floor with your phone and scan each item’s QR code or barcode label. The audit list is on the phone, so it works where there is no signal. Asset Infinity marks every item found where expected, found somewhere else or not found, and records anything standing there that isn’t on the register, giving finance a count it can sign. Between audits, an RFID handheld reads a whole shelf of tags in one walk and logs when each item was last scanned.

Print QR code and barcode labels on a desktop printer, print and encode RFID labels on an RFID printer, or write an item’s number onto an RFID tag with a handheld. Custom-printed polyester, stainless steel and on-metal tags are made for outdoors, heat and wash cycles. A scan opens the item in Asset Infinity: where it stands, who keeps it, its warranty and what is open against it.

Mount a fixed RFID reader and antennas at a doorway, dock or gate, and every tagged item that passes is read with nobody scanning. Indoors, Bluetooth gateways placed on your floor plan hear BLE tags and show where each item is, room by room, with a trail you can replay. Asset Infinity records each arrival and room change in the item’s movement history, can update its location automatically and can notify people when it arrives or leaves. BLE tags also report a low battery, a button press and going silent.

Put a durable label or tag on each machine and give technicians a rugged mobile computer or their phone. One scan opens the machine in Asset Infinity with its open jobs and meters, and each job carries its checklist, parts and hours. Every scan is logged with who made it and when, so the register shows when somebody last stood in front of each machine.

Label bins and shelves, scan a bin’s label to open its part, and hand out, move, receive and count stock from the phone, even from a van with no signal. Asset Infinity keeps stock levels current, flags parts at their reorder point, and records where each part went: the job it was fitted on, or the person, project or machine it was issued to.

Fit a GPS tracker to vehicles, generators and containers that leave the site. Asset Infinity shows each one on a map with the route it took, warns when it leaves a geofence or goes silent, and counts the distance it reports into the asset’s meters so servicing falls due on use. A wired vehicle tracker adds engine hours and warns when its power is cut or it is unplugged. Inside a warehouse, pallets and cages carrying BLE tags are placed on the floor plan by Bluetooth gateways, and a fixed reader at the gate reads windshield RFID tags.