RF Code Announces Asset Manager

RF Code, Inc, provider of "wire-free" critical asset monitoring solutions, recently announced Asset Manager, a real-time asset management solution that provides up-to-the minute information about an asset's exact location and movement, security and environmental status, without requiring any manual labor to gather this information. It then instantly alerts when changes occur.

San-Antonio, Texas-based Clear Channel Communications uses RF Code's Asset Manager in its data center.

Having a complete and accurate view into their asset inventory allows those in the asset management food chain—from asset managers to department managers to IT professionals to accounting and legal professionals—to make the timeliest, most cost-effective and fact-based decisions regarding assets under their care. The solution is ideal for a variety of customers, including healthcare, IT/data center, retail and industrial organizations who want to gain a firmer hand over their asset inventory.

Because of its open architecture, Asset Manager easily integrates into the market's leading back end systems, adding automated real time asset information into such systems as IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT, HP AssetCenter and others.

"Millions of dollars are at stake for those organizations that don't have the real time information they need to manage assets across the lifecycle," said Mitch Medford, RF Code CEO. "We dub this the ‘information latency problem,' which occurs when organizations act on information based on a ‘last taken' inventory. The cost of this is astounding: from having to manually gather asset information from barcode or passive RFID scans; to overprovisioning because of lack of insight into where a lost, moved or hoarded asset might be; to legal jeopardy from heightened compliance risk from inaccurate asset audits; to data vulnerability from lack of knowledge of an asset's location. Asset Manager attacks information latency head on."

In a related move, RF Code also announced Sensor Manager, a wire-free environmental monitoring solution based on the company's active RFID sensors and management software. Sensor Manager automatically collects data from temperature and humidity sensors that can be flexibly placed anywhere in a dense environment, such as a data center, where monitoring is called for. This wire-free approach eliminates the problems related to hard-wired environmental systems that are expensive to redeploy or reconfigure dynamically.

Both Asset Manager and Sensor Manager leverage RF Code's wire-free infrastructure so that customers seeking an environmental solution, for example, can easily add asset monitoring or asset security capabilities quickly and affordably. This approach protects customers' asset awareness investments and enables them to enhance their monitoring efforts as their needs change.

About Asset Manager
Asset Manager consists of RF Code's patented intelligent, wire-free (Active RFID) tags and sensors, readers and pliable asset management software, with a Web 2.0-based user interface. No other asset management solution is as adaptable: Asset Manager gives customers the flexibility to easily configure the solution according to their organizational needs and reconfigure when those needs shift.

Software features of Asset Manager include:

• A fully customizable asset database schema
• Asset lifecycle management capability
• Customer-defined condition thresholds and alerting
• Scheduled and ad-hoc reports

Moreover, customers can choose the level of asset location visibility that most closely corresponds to their particular organization.

• Zonal coverage for distributed assets in buildings
• Rack level coverage for IT assets in the data center

About RF Code, Inc.
RF Code automates the ability to discover, track and monitor high-value physical assets across the enterprise. Using the company's award-winning wire-free Adaptive Asset Awareness platform, customers know instantly and on demand the precise location of each individual asset. This spares them the high cost, time intensity, and compliance risk of a manual inventory. RF Code and its world-class roster of global partners develop solutions used in demanding industry environments including IT, healthcare, defense, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, transportation and homeland security.For more information,visit http://www.rfcode.com

SOURCE: RF Code, Inc