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How to track your engineering tools

eetimes.com 07 Jun '12, 5pm

RFID: How to track your engineering tools - EE Times (blog): How to track your engineering toolsEE Times (blog)I...

Hi Max, I have been tasked to come up with a “workable” means of tracking our electrical engineering tools like scopes, meters, power supplies, J-LINKs, CAN bus converters, evaluation boards, compiler source, and the like. Currently, if we need an item, we first look in the engineering lab. If not found we then ask those most likely to have used it if they know where the item is. The next step is to send an email to everyone and hours or a day later you get a response. This is not a time-efficient system. I thought that placing a RFID tag on each item and then use several RFID readers to triangulate the location of the item would be great. Turns out RFID readers with a range of 10 meters appear to be very expensive (>$1000). A simple sign out or logging system has not worked very well. If someone finds the item sitting unused on a desk they use it without signing it out (p...

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