VACUUMS & SWEEPERS
Keeping tabs on your kit
Here we learn how RFID tags can keep tabs on your high value cleaning equipment, like vacuums and sweepers.
If your cleaning operation has numerous valuable assets like vacuum cleaners and sweepers, as well as technology like computers, it’s not always easy to keep track of such assets, especially if you’re providing a cleaning service across a number of sites. It can also cost a lot of money to replace items that mysteriously go missing.
If you need to know where each asset is, who has it or whether any of the devices need servicing or replacing, then RFID tagging could be the answer. It can save you significant time and money tracking down items and allow you to easily keep an organised inventory of your company’s assets.
Getting definitive answers on the location of assets has traditionally been difficult, time-consuming, costly and prone to error. It often takes a whole team to gather such data, which is expensive, unpopular with staff and frequently leaves some assets unaccounted for, no matter how detailed and manual the process is.
Another problem organisations face when attempting to track assets with a barcode-based system is that items accounted for at the beginning of the process will often get lost later down the line. If you have several vacuum cleaners, sweepers and other high-value assets that need to be monitored, be they stationary or portable, they all have to be accounted for.
Taking preventive measures using asset tracking and labelling technology could save you time and money because the cost of missing an asset can have serious negative impacts on not only your operational capacity but also your business processes.
How asset RFID tagging works
RFID tags help users not only quickly and accurately track and locate assets, but they also require significantly less manpower. Once tagged, RFID readers at various locations can identify each asset and tie the data into the company’s main software systems. Reading the tags is either automated at pre-defined intervals or on-demand. The RFID readers can be fixed at various locations and chokepoints, or can be handheld.
The tags used for asset tracking usually also have printed information on them. This is intentional, and the printed data serves as a backup record to the RFID process.
Hardware
RFID series printers like TSC Printronix Auto ID T6000e and T4000 are used extensively by service organisations for asset tracking applications. Tags can be pre-printed and
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pre-encoded in large volumes for attaching to existing and new cleaning equipment, and any other high value assets.
Given that assets can vary in size, construction and physical form, different tag types are often needed for different asset classes. An on-metal tag might be the best solution for larger kit, whereas a very small label might be needed for smaller devices. Both the T6000e and T4000 RFID printers give users the ability to work with a wide range of different tags, from thick on-metal tags to plasticised Returnable Transport Item (RTI) tags.
TSC Printronix Auto ID RFID-enabled printers can handle both the wide variety and high volume of tags needed for asset tracking.
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