Inventor-e Launches Hybrid Auto-ID Solutions

Inventor-e Launches Hybrid Auto-ID Solutions

Sometimes, a multitude of technologies is the best way to track assets or individuals within facilities or in the field. RFID tags or Bluetooth beacons alone, for instance, might not enable a company to easily monitor the locations of assets as they are taken from a factory, warehouse or office and loaded into a van, as well as identify where they were removed from that vehicle and why. But beacons, together with Electronic Product Code (EPC) and Near Field Communication (NFC) passive RFID tags, can be deployed to enable a wide variety of data-collection methods to determine where an item or person is going within a building, across a parking lot and inside a vehicle. That data can then be made available via an app or hosted software.

U.K. company Inventor-e has built an assortment of flexible solutions combining all three technologies. A variety of users, including managers of hospital supplies, facilities-management companies and shipyard operators, have deployed Inventor-e's SmartStores solution to manage items that their employees use. In addition, several businesses have begun trials of the company's SmartVan stock-management solution across their vehicle fleets.