Asset Tracking & Public Services — application environment

Despliegue

Seguimiento de activos y servicios públicos

Everything the balance sheet owns and nobody can find at 4 pm on a Friday.

Asset tracking is the least glamorous RFID business and the one that pays back fastest, because the baseline is almost always a spreadsheet that nobody trusts. The project is not a reader purchase; it is a count that has to reconcile. That means the tag has to survive the asset, the read point has to match how people actually walk, and the software has to accept a batch upload from a device that was out of coverage for two hours. We quote the handheld and the antenna, and we are explicit about which assets a handheld can find and which ones need a fixed portal.

Quién decide realmente la compra

Facilities and estate teams, hospitals and labs, utilities and municipal works, telecom tower operators, and the RFID integrators who deliver the inventory count.

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The asset register is wrong before the project starts

Most sites begin with 15-30 percent of records that cannot be matched to a physical object. The first pass is always a discovery walk, not a go-live, and the device has to be fast enough that a two-day count does not become two weeks.

The tag fails before the reader does

Metal shelves, liquid containers, autoclaves and outdoor poles each break a different tag. On-metal UHF labels, ceramic tags, or a simple printed 2D label with a photo in the record beats an RFID tag that reads at 20 cm.

Nobody owns the sync

Basements, plant rooms, tunnels and lift shafts have no signal. Batch mode with a timestamped queue and a duplicate-safe upload is the requirement; real-time sync is a nice-to-have that becomes the reason a count is rejected.

Flujo de datos

Cómo se mueve realmente la información

Esta es la parte que decide el equipo. Cada paso siguiente tiene un requisito distinto de tamaño de pantalla, motor de escaneo y conectividad.

01Tag and registerEvery asset gets an identity: an on-metal UHF label where it survives, a printed 2D label where it does not, both carrying the same asset number so the record works either way.

02Discovery countA handheld with a 4 dBi circular antenna sweeps a floor in a pass, logging location zone and timestamp. The gap list - records with no read - is the deliverable, not the read count.

03Fixed points where it mattersServer rooms, pharmacy stores and tool cribs get a portal or a shelf antenna so movement is captured without anyone scanning. This is where a handheld stops being enough.

04Move, repair, retireThe same device records transfers, sends an item to repair and retires it, with a photo attached. The audit trail is the product; the hardware just has to not lose it.

05Reconcile and reportCounts export to the fixed-asset register and to the finance period. Anything that cannot be reconciled is flagged rather than quietly written off, which is what auditors actually ask for.

Despliegues de referencia

Asset tracking programmes we can talk about

Mismo flujo de trabajo, mismos puntos de falla, distinta escala. La columna de equipamiento es lo que realmente se desplegó.

Todos los despliegues

8 h → 30 min Retail y moda

Cadena de moda, más de 200 tiendas

Inventario completo de una tienda de dos plantas, hecho antes de abrir en lugar de después de cerrar.

Handheld UHF RFID + lector fijo en la puerta del almacén

10 M paquetes / día Paquetería y logística

Centro logístico global

Lecturas de clasificación a la velocidad de la cinta; sin reescaneo manual cuando la etiqueta está arrugada.

Lector UHF tipo pistola + terminal vehicular en el tractor de arrastre

1.800 husos Producción y MES

Hilatura textil inteligente

La trazabilidad a nivel de huso reemplaza las hojas de ruta en papel en la línea de hilatura.

Tablet reforzada en la línea + handheld UHF para la ronda de cambio de bobinas

Hardware

Equipos que cotizamos para este despliegue

BH-C6100

Android 10 / 13 · RFID

Handheld RFID UHF clase 20 m

Lector UHF Bluetooth compacto

Tablet robusta de 10.1" con Windows

Huella dactilarNFCEscáner 2D

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BH-I61J

Windows · handhelds

Handheld robusto de 6.5" con Windows

Lector UHF Bluetooth multiplataforma

RFID

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BW-IRC390

Android 10 · PoC Radios

Terminal intercomunicador multimodal PoC / DMR

AndroidPocradio

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Preguntas que recibimos

Antes de preguntar

Las preguntas que surgen en casi todos los proyectos del sector, respondidas antes de la primera llamada.

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01UHF RFID or just barcodes?

Barcodes if the assets are few, close together and read one at a time. UHF when the job is finding things: a shelf of 300 tagged items reads in seconds and tells you what is missing, which a barcode never will because you have to see each label.

02What read range is realistic indoors?

A handheld at 2 W with a 4 dBi antenna gives 3-6 m on a well-placed on-metal tag, less through shelving and much less around corners. Vendors quoting 20 m are quoting an open-field number with a fixed reader. Plan the count by zone, not by radius.

03Can this run on the devices we already own?

If they have a UHF module or a 2D imager and a keyboard-wedge or SDK path into your EAM, yes. We will tell you which of your existing units can carry the workload and which will need an external Bluetooth reader instead of a new fleet.

04¿Puede suministrar cinco unidades para un piloto?

Sí. Un piloto es el punto de entrada habitual. Cotizamos unidades sueltas a precio de muestra y apoyamos el piloto con repuestos en el mismo pedido: una batería de repuesto y una base, no un palé.

05¿Las unidades Android se envían con GMS?

La mayoría de los modelos Android se entregan con GMS. Para configuraciones sin servicios de Google, suministramos firmware sin GMS en el mismo hardware; indíquelo en la cotización, ya que es una decisión de firmware, no un ajuste.

06¿Qué garantía ofrecen?

Un año de serie, que cubre el equipo y la batería frente a defectos de fabricación. Hay cobertura ampliada y términos de sustitución anticipada para flotas; solicítelos en la cotización, no tras el primer fallo.

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Medical, power, energy, construction, mining, oil and gas, electronics and agriculture — the asset, the tag problem, the read distance that matters and the device each one needs.

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