Ⅰ.Introduction

 

Use of RFID Tracking System has seen tremendous growth in the corporate sector. Laptops offer enormous flexibility &convenience to both organization and employees driving productivity & responsiveness. It is not just traveling sales force or senior management that is given with laptops. With continuous drop in laptop prices, proliferation of broadband connectivity, flexible work hours and global operations have necessitated laptop use by middle as well junior management employees. What is interesting is the fact that although laptops are predominantly used by IT / ITES organizations, traditional industries are not far behind in broad based usage.

 

 

Ⅱ.Challenge

 

Despite tremendous benefits laptops offer, one of the key concerns is related to its movement in & out of office usually on a daily basis. This makes laptops susceptible to theft which not only is loss of asset but more importantly loss of valuable and at times sensitive data. It is important for organization to ensure that right person carries the right laptop into & out of the facility. In some cases one would want to track movement of laptop within a facility & across facilities of same organization.

 

Current method of laptop tracking is mainly through manual verification by security personnel. In some cases we have observed writing down serial number of the laptop at the entrance of the building. Any manual process is wastage of employeeˇs time as well as a big irritant. Thus there is a tremendous need for auto identification of laptop as well as employee carrying the laptop so that organizations can efficiently ensure ¨Right Person carries the Right Laptop〃. Other complexity involved in auto identification is the fact that laptops are carried in various orientations  in hand, on shoulders, open/closed condition, employee walking vs. driving etc.

 

 

Ⅲ. Benefits

 

 

●Ensures asset and data is protected as right person is made to take the right laptop

●Increase in productivity as employees do not wait for authentication of laptop

●Automatically keeps a log of all movements of laptop & employees

●Dissuades employees from swapping or exchanging laptops

●Regulates flow of certain restricted laptops(data) across the organization

●Reduces supervision cost of assets

●Tracking helps in easy identification and location of assets during audits