Automated Management of Assets Based on RFID

With the maturing of the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, automated management of assets (particularly for mobile ones) in an enterprise using RFID becomes practical. This paper proposes a RFID-based asset management system (RAMS) and details how to maintain the whole life-cycle of assets from their acquisition, transfer, maintenance, audit taking, to retirement. The proposed system also displays spatial information of assets on an electronic geographical map using WebGIS technology. Further asset security is improved by automated notification of asset movement and malfunction alarm through SMS. Preliminary experiments show that the proposed system can improve the availability of assets and reduce the asset management cost dramatically.

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