RFID for Asset Tracking

摘要

Earlier this Month, I went to palo alto, Calif., to meet with scientists Cyril Brignone, Craig Sayers, and Salil Pradhan. They demonstrated for me a practical IT asset-tracking solution for datacenters, designed around RFID technology and software visualization. Brignone and Sayers are research scientists at the sentient environments department at HP Labs. Together with Pradhan, CTO of the labs' RFID program, they put an RFID tag on every rack-mounted server and used an RFID reader mounted inside the door of what they call a "smart rack" to track where the servers are at all times. The system works by collecting location information for the servers in a database and using a Web server to publish visualizations of that data.