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RAIN Alliance MeetingTokyo, Japan

Enterprise IT Asset ManagementAn Engineered Approach

13 September, 2016

Bart A. Ivy, PMPbart.ivy@evanhoe.com334.233.2250

Evanhoe & Associates Inc.5089 Norman BlvdDayton, OH 45431www.Evanhoe.com

Overview

• Introduction

• Definition

• Driving Factors

• Approach

• Two Critical Deliverables

• Engineered Solutions

• Questions

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Introduction

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Auto-ID Technology

Bar codes – Passive RFID – Active RFID –RTLS – sensors – GPS

Software Solutions

Location – Status – History – Alerts –Movements – Integration

Professional Services

Analysis – Development – Implementation –Training - Support

Field Mobility Solutions

aRFID Solutions

IT asset tracking

Work in progress Warehouse assets

Assets Identification/tracking

Yard Management

Mobile Integration

pRFID Solutions

RTLS Solutions

Implementation

Training

Asset tracking Analysis

Active RFID Installation

Site Surveys

Passive Portal Installation

Definition

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is the management of the assets of an enterprise across departments, facilities, business units and geographical locations.

EAM integrates techniques for holistic control and optimization throughout asset life cycles, including design, commissioning, operations and replacement.

IT asset management is a combination of business processes and practices that encompass financial, contractual and inventory processes in order to support life cycle management and enable strategic decision making for the organization.

Source: Techopedia.com/definitions/4

Driving Factors

• Specific Business Needs• Compliance

• Protection of protected data/device for risk mitigation

• Improve visibility of assets

• Ensuring availability of assets

• Reduce inventory time

• Expected Benefits (ROI)• Automated solution to ensure compliance

• Notification when protected data/device leave authorized areas

• Improved asset visibility

• Assets available when required

• Reduction in time to perform inventories5

Approach

• Define specific business needs

• Define expected business benefits

• Conduct and document a RF site survey

• Define and document projects requirements

• Define and document processes (“As-Is” and “To-Be”)

• Design the solution (Where the magic happens)

• Implementation & integration

• Support after the sale (Service Level Agreement, etc.)

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Approach

Can a specific RFID solution resolve my needs?

• Yes but “It Depends”• Environmental Conditions

• Physics of Radio Frequency

• Asset Characteristics

• Hardware and Tags/label performance

• Business Case• Customer’s business process differ form site to site even within the

same company

• Value proposition

• Network

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Approach

• There are thousands of excellent RAIN RFID products (readers, antennas, tags/labels and sensors) each designed to support standard protocols each with its own unique capabilities.

• RAIN makes it possible for Engineers to integrate products from multiple manufactures to resolved specific and unique environmental or process requirement for the customer.

• Engineering is required to match specific RAIN products with the customer environmental conditions.

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Two Critical Deliverables

• RF Site Survey Report • Customer requirements (can be accomplished prior to site survey)

• Identifies existing RF environmental factors that must be considered

• Identifies placement/mounting of RFID reader/antennas/tags

• Identifies all RFID equipment, mounting hardware and any other equipment required to complete the installation

• As Installed Report• Documents configurations of installed hardware/software

• Includes all warranty data

• Validates completion of work

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Engineered Solution

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• Requirement• Track test asset at fixed location• Track test asset as they enter/leave

test facility

• Problem• Multiple exits within test location• Includes rollup doors and test area

near the doors in drawing.

• Solution• Leveraged Intermec IF2 reader &

antennas with Impinj R640 xPortals• Tag Selection criticalWeapon Test Facility

Engineered Solution

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• Requirement• Floor Level Visibility• Use PoE

• Problem• Ethernet cable lengths• Antenna cable loss

• Solution• Installed reader and antenna

above drop ceiling• Used sufficient cable size based

on run length to address cable loss

Engineered Solution

• Requirement• Identify assets as they enter and

exit the building• Floor level visibility across the

Enterprise

• Problem• Could not use normal portals• Wide monitoring area• Ceiling height 16ft

• Solution• Installed Impinj R680 xArray• Selected tags based on 16ft

minimum read range

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Personnel Main Entrance – Impinj R680 xArray

Engineered Solution

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• Requirement• Identify assets as they enter and

exit the building• Floor level visibility across the

Enterprise

• Problem• Could not use normal portals• Very large monitoring area• Ceiling height 16ft

• Solution• Installed Impinj R680 xArray• Selected tags based on 16ft

minimum read rangePersonnel Interior Entrance – Impinj R680 xArray

Engineered Solution

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Engineered Solutions

• RF Interference Present• Seen on multiple floors

depending on where you took the measurements

• Took several days to isolate the source

• Source identified as remote control light in auditorium

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Engineered Solution

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• Requirement• Track work in progress (WIP)• Track Finished Goods

• Problem• Large to small metal assets to track• Manual conveyor area – Employees

must be able to move freely around assets.

• Solution• Leveraged Impinj R680 and R420

reader• Tag Selection critical

Questions

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