In our offices, there are many pieces of equipment subject to asset management such as electronic devices including PCs, printers and projectors, as well as fixtures and furniture including chairs and desks. A piece of equipment, which is often moved, may get lost. During inventory taking, the ledger doesn’t match the actual number of pieces of equipment due to the misplacement, etc., which is a big problem for administrators. YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory has conducted research and development of "Ubiquitous Equipment Management System". This system assigns ucode to respective items and storage places, based on ubiquitous tracing platform (UTP), and easily manages the equipment and its location for record-keeping purposes. When assigning ucodes to individual object, you can select from various tags including two-dimensional barcode (QR code) and RFID tags, in accordance with the size and material of the object. When purchasing new equipment, you register the ucode of the equipment and ucode of storage place in a server by using ubiquitous communicator. Afterward, you can find the said equipment easily by designating the equipment information to search the storage place during inventory taking. Also, by installing ubiquitous markers using infrared or wireless technology in the storage, it is possible to register the storage place automatically or to guide the user to the specified storage place. By using this system as the front end for existing equipment management system, you can make effective use of the existing system. You can also link it with related administrative processes such as resource management and leasing management.
Use case of Ubiquitous Inventory Traceability System
