If your company has many assets that are always on the go, tracking them can be a real challenge. Whether you’re a school administration who regularly sends computers home with students or your employees work with tools and equipment across sites, knowing where your assets are is necessary to prevent loss and to ensure that you know exactly who has what, so you can get them back. That’s precisely why GPS tracking with QR barcodes and smartphones is a necessity.
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Why Use QR Codes?
QR barcodes offer several benefits compared to more traditional means of asset tracking. For example, they hold far more information than a traditional barcode, and because your information is stored in the cloud, you can find out everything you need to know about a particular piece of equipment with just a single scan. All of the information is uploaded into a system that you can use to generate reports too, providing you with useful data for asset maintenance tracking and asset lifecycle management (from purchase to end of life) for better decision making. What’s more, since most smartphones have QR code readers built right in, scanning a qr code is simply convenient for everyone who uses it.
QR Code Materials
QR labels come in a range of rugged materials and in a range of sizes, which mean that they can be used in places like oil fields, mines and deserts, as well as in wet conditions including out at sea. That durability of rugged tag material, means you can track your assets wherever they are, and know that they won’t disintegrate or fall off.
QR Code Set Up
Some businesses tag several hundred assets, others can tag hundreds of thousands. Whatever the size of your project, tagging needs to be completed so that you can gain the benefit of your asset tracking solution. To tag effectively, have a point person and a roll out that’s been fully communicated to your team. The more people onboard for tagging, the faster it’ll be completed. And for your team, the benefits of using an asset tracking solution, will far outweigh the initial time it took to tag your assets. Since, tagging requires that you adhere the tag, scan the QR code, take a photo and pull down a menu to identify the asset, tagging takes a minute or so per asset. It’s that easy!
GPS and QR – The Perfect Pair
QR labels that are rugged (made of metal or durable poly) allow you to track your laptops, tools and equipment. Simply scan the code to update the location. However, for extremely expensive equipment (such as a digger for example or a van full of tools) you may want to add both a barcode and a gps tracker. GPS trackers are great for monitoring movement, as they can provide minute by minute GPS location updates, so you always know where your vehicle or equipment is.
Conclusion
QR code tags and today’s asset tracking solutions like GoCodes Asset Tracking, take asset tracking to a whole new level. Today, QR codes really help you do it all!
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