RFID Tracking Solutions Expand Across Educational Institutions

Universities, community colleges, and school districts are required to perform annual inventory audits to verify their assets. Institutions with grant-funded purchases face additional audit requirements, and state-affiliated institutions have special compliance needs as they are funded by taxpayers.

Performing these audits manually is cumbersome, tedious, and error-prone — consuming significant human capital across institutions with assets worth tens of millions of dollars, ranging from IT and lab equipment to HVAC, vehicles, and furniture spread across dozens of locations.

AssetPulse deployed its handheld RFID solution with the AssetGather platform, along with a new check-in/check-out portal. Institutions including Stanford University, South Carolina State University, and Syracuse University leveraged the system to address a variety of asset tracking challenges.

Syracuse University's Electrical and Computer Science Department used the handheld RFID solution to complete asset audits across dozens of locations, scanning hundreds of lab equipment items quickly and accurately.

The AssetPulse RFID tracking solution has helped Syracuse University complete audits in a fraction of the time compared to manual processes — a benefit sustained over six years of use.

AssetPulse continues to expand across the education sector, helping institutions save costs while gaining in-depth visibility into assets, eliminating duplicate purchases, and enabling efficient asset transfers between departments and campuses.