Tracking mobile assets

Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 10/1/2005

I.D. Systems, Inc., announced that its RFID-based equipment tracking and management system, the Wireless Asset net, has been enhanced with greater location tracking accuracy. The system now can pinpoint the location of mobile assets to within 20 feet—indoors and outdoors—to analyze movements, increase security, improve operational efficiencies, and enforce safety regulations.

The enhanced system is being deployed in multiple applications, including rental car fleet management, homeland security, and material handling equipment management in manufacturing and distribution facilities.

The system's high degree of indoor location-tracking accuracy is technically significant because it does not rely on costly, high-bandwidth interconnections with centralized data-processing computers—as required by other types of real-time locating systems—and because it is accomplished through the use of radio frequency technology only, not GPS. For applications that require combined indoor/outdoor location tracking, the Wireless Asset Net offers an optional GPS receiver to provide highly accurate outdoor location data.