IoT Solutions: Asset Tracking
Asset Tracking
Asset tracking is the process of monitoring the whereabouts of business-critical physical assets within a location that is mobile in nature, such as mobile computing equipment or inventory containers.
Monitoring and controlling in-building or campus-wide assets used to be a very demanding. Tracking and tracing equipment and devices in large buildings can help to decrease time spent from core tasks.
- No unnecessary time spent searching for devices
- Easy maintenance
- Active and timely replenishment of devices
- Overall overview of devices available
How does it work?
A series of wireless, battery powered, anchor nodes installed in the building at known positions act as position reference points. Tags are mounted on the devices that require tracing functionality. The position of the tags is calculated based on the signal level received from the anchors (RSSI: Received Signal Strength Indication). The anchors also constitute the mesh network. Sending the tag position information from anchor to anchor, up to the gateway connected to the IT network or the cloud.The hardware installation is easy as it requires hardly any cable installation.
Anchors are able to transfer data through the network and acts as a router. By adding a Gateway the network is complete.
The benefits of the Mesh Network are:
- Highly scalable
- Self-healing
- Extremely low interferrence
- Low cost
- Long battery life
The dashboard, the data collected needs visualization, FCL Components has a fast eco-system in which various partners are available to visualize the data in a dashboard system.
Dashboard systems can be customized to accommodate exactly the data required.
Expanding
The FCL Components IoT solutions are easy to extend upon when the network has been formed through the anchors any other FCL Components or FCL Components eco-partner Solution can always be added. By example environment monitoring or indoor navigation.The network can also be set-up through eco partner smart lighting system, in that set-up the lighting fixtures form the mesh network.
