The Asset Tracking opportunity can take many forms. There is value in tracking assets such as reusable transport items (also known as shipping totes). There is value in tracking IT assets such as servers and PCs. There is value in tracking tools, carts, and moveable fixtures. In just about every industry there are assets that can be better managed if they can be tracked using RFID that does not rely on human intervention to update asset movements and locations.

There are many opportunities for ROI using RFID for Asset Tracking:

• Reduction of Capital Invested
• Rapid, Accurate Physical Inventories
• Tool Cage & Storage Management
• Security
• Safety Monitoring
• Reduction of Liability
• Asset Protection - Cost, Confidentiality, Maintenance
• Data Center management
• Repair/Upgrade tracking
• Regulatory Compliance
• Disaster Recovery Effectiveness
• Cost Control / Asset Utilization
• Loss Prevention

An Infrastructure for Asset Tracking - The use of RFID for asset tracking creates many requirements for an expandable, sustainable infrastructure. There are open-loop, closed-loop and hybrid inter-enterprise supply chain applications for asset tracking which requires a standards-based approach. Facility level deployments will incorporate both fixed/portal type readers and handheld/mobile readers to facilitate tag data capture as part of many processes in many locations. Different types of assets may be tracked for different reasons reporting data to different applications. And, most companies envision incremental use of RFID over time as they expand the number of tracking locations, deployed readers and consuming applications across their enterprise. The Reva Systems Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) delivers the scalable infrastructure platform that enterprises can depend on to generate value now and in the future for tracking any asset.

The Reva TAP supports most major reader brands and models with simple point-and-click configuration. The Reva solution provides a graphical user interface that allows implementers to define physical facility layouts, place fixed readers, indicate benchmark reference tags for coordinating and dynamically determining mobile reader locations, create business location representations and once deployed - remotely manage and monitor facility level RFID networks. Configuration tasks can also be automated to facilitate rapid rollouts for deployments that incorporate 100's of facilities.