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SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 25, 2009 - AssetPulse,
a provider of RFID-enabled real-time asset tracking solutions,
recently deployed its AssetGather solution at the 375th
Medical Group, Scott Air Force Base Medical Center.
The Center will be using AssetGather to track IT Assets.
AssetPulse packaged its AssetGather software along with
EPC Gen2 Passive Handheld RFID readers and tags, to enable
rapid inventorying of thousands of IT Assets dispersed
across two thousand rooms in various buildings. The primary
objective was to implement an RFID-based system which
would positively impact Scott AFB Medical Center's ability
to effectively and efficiently track their IT assets.
The Scott AFB Medical Center uses a large amount of IT
equipment in its hospitals and pharmacies to help deliver
medical and dental services to its beneficiaries. Even
though organizations like the 375th Medical Group have
a fair assessment of what assets they own, over a period
of time, assets were getting moved and sometimes temporarily
misplaced within the organization. This caused the required
periodic audits which were manually intensive, to be very
time consuming and potentially error-prone, as they involved
manual reading of serial numbers and updates in spreadsheets
or existing enterprise systems.
AssetPulse has deployed its flagship AssetGather product
to address the inefficiencies and possible inaccuracies
in the system. The web-based AssetGather
software provides up-to-date asset and inventory reports
by integrating with a range of automatic identification
technologies. These technologies include passive, semi-passive,
and active RFID, as well as bar codes. Tracking IT assets
using RFID was a high priority project within the Medical
Center, and as a preliminary step Scott AFB decided to
use EPC Gen2 passive RFID technology with handheld readers.
In consultation with AssetPulse, a variety of passive
RFID tags from different vendors were tried out by
Scott AFB. The factors taken into consideration by Scott
AFB included readability, type of mounting surface, and
aesthetics. Aesthetics were especially important for the
tags that had to be mounted on the mobile devices. RFID
tags manufactured by Confidex were found optimal and were
chosen for over 90% of the IT assets. RFID tags were also
used to identify the rooms, in order to increase efficiency
of the scanning process. Additionally, AssetPulse developed
special tools and processes, in consultation with Scott
AFB Medical Center, to help streamline the process of
tagging all the assets and locations.
"We are pleased
that the Confidex SteelWave UHF EPC Gen2 Passive RFID
tag was recognized as a leading performer by AssetPulse
and Scott AFB Medical Center," said Bill Compitello, Director
of Sales at Confidex. "AssetPulse's AssetGather software
effectively leverages the performance of the Confidex
SteelWave to provide Scott AFB Medical Center an exceptional
overall solution."
Apart from inventory scans and audits, the system will
also allow the Scott AFB Medical Center personnel to perform
physical searches of batches of assets when they are due
for replacement at the end of their life-cycle. In the
near future, the current system would be extended to track
new locations and assets tagged with Active RFID, for
real-time tracking of critical
IT assets in selective areas within the medical center.
"We are very happy that the Scott AFB Medical Center
chose AssetPulse products." said Sujatha Bodapati, founder
and CEO of AssetPulse. "It is heartening to see our customers
leverage the benefits of RFID, leading to increased efficiencies
and streamlining of their inventory processes."
About
AssetPulse
AssetPulse is a San Jose, California based company focused
exclusively on providing complete customizable RFID-enabled
solutions
for tracking assets in various industries, including IT,
Construction, Oil & Gas and Rental Assets. AssetPulse's
solutions integrate seamlessly with fixed and mobile RFID
readers using Passive, Semi-Passive and Active RFID Technologies
or bar-codes. For more information, please call (408)
872-3104 or visit www.assetpulse.com.
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