Asset tracking is increasingly becoming a more important issue as companies try to get a better handle on the status and location of their critical assets and inventories. Organizations are looking to reduce operating costs by implementing improved asset tracking to decrease shrinkage, lower maintenance costs, and optimize asset utilization.
The Sun solution leverages RFID technology to determine the real-time location of critical assets and issue an alert when an asset is not in its designated location. In addition, the solution allows managers to effectively analyze and plan asset utilization and deployment.
The RFID solution has already been deployed internally at two locations -- the Sun Shared Lab Facility in Newark, CA and the Sun Tradeshow Equipment Distribution Center in Milpitas, CA. It is now available to external customers.
In the Sun Newark Shared Lab Project, Sun plans to maintain 10,000+ servers and computing devices within a 6,000 square foot facility. Sun says it can verify the location and physical characteristics (type, age, expiration date, temperature and movements) of all assets at the facility in one hour, without the need of a network connection. For each piece of equipment, Sun says it can track the association of that asset to a rack footprint, section, room, building and campus.
Sun's RFID solution is a combination of Sun technologies and product components including: Solaris 10 Operating System, Sun Java Enterprise System and Sun Java System RFID Software. The solution is packaged with third-party components and applications, such as the RFID-enabled mobile asset management system from Applied Logistics Solutions and is capable of working with many of the commonly available RFID readers.
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