ASSET TRACKING

Asset tracking combines technology and processes to help you monitor physical assets throughout your organization,including where they’re located and who’s using them. Our RedBeam Asset Tracking solution enables you to use barcodes or RFID tags to identify your assets, which you can then scan with mobile devices or readers. The resulting data is stored in our centralized cloud platform – which gives you real-time visibility across teams, departments, and locations.

Our solution can track a wide range of fixed assets, including IT equipment, office furniture, tools, and more. It’s versatile enough to accommodate a variety of industries and their unique asset types. Here are some of most common assets tracked by industry:

State & Local Government

• Office technology – PCs, projectors, mobile phones, tablets
• Equipment – Evidence kits, cameras, tools
• Vehicles

Construction

• Heavy machinery – bulldozers, excavators, cranes, backhoes and forklifts
• Tools – hammers, drills, saws, and ladders
• Safety equipment – hard hats, harnesses

Education

• Classroom technology – projectors, tablets
• Laboratory equipment – microscopes, lab kits
• Musical instruments and sports gear

Healthcare

• Medical devices – WoWs, MRI machines, ventilators, defibrillators
• Patient care equipment – wheelchairs, hospital beds
• Lab instruments – centrifuges, microscopes

Logistics & Transportation

• Shipping containers and pallets
• Fleet vehicles – trucks, vans
• Warehouse equipment – forklifts, conveyor belts

Manufacturing

• Production machinery – CNC machines, assembly line robots
• Raw materials and components

RedBeam Asset Tracking is entirely Google Cloud-based, which offers you the advantages of accessibility, automatic updates, reduced IT infrastructure costs, and added security. Between RedBeam engineers and the security team at Google, we handle the cloud infrastructure security for the app to ensure it’s protected with the latest security standards.

Because our application supports unlimited locations and assets, it truly is completely scalable. Whatever size or stage of growth your business is in, RedBeam has the built-in flexibility to keep pace as your needs evolve.

Short answer: No, you’re not required to use specific hardware to track assets with RedBeam. 

Longer answer: Here are a few things to consider –

• All you really need is 1) a computer or smartphone to run the software on, and 2) some way to scan barcodes – which you can even do with a mobile phone. 
• Devices like label printers, handheld scanners,  and enterprise-grade mobile computers do offer additional benefits that you may find helpful, depending on your environment and goals. As you get to know and use the RedBeam, if you decide to add any of these components, the system will be able to accommodate you doing so. 
• To use RedBeam Asset Tracking’s RFID capabilities, you will need to add at least a Zebra RFID reader to your system – there’s simply no way to read RFID tags without one.

If you decide you want to add a certain type of hardware to enhance your setup, feel free to contact us. We’re happy to offer our expert recommendations.

Some asset management systems focus on digital assets or intangible things like licenses, intellectual property, and trademarks. 

RedBeam, on the other hand, is built specifically to track your physical or fixed assets – things like IT equipment and other essential, tangible resources your business uses every day. We help you translate your physical items into digital identities, which then gives you the ability to track, analyze, and manage data about these assets.  

With our asset management tools, you get the real-time visibility necessary to speed up inventory audits, maintain accurate lifecycle tracking, and fulfill compliance reporting requirements. 

Generally speaking, asset management tools refer to the software applications and related technologies that enable you to track, manage, and analyze your physical assets across their lifecycle.

In the context of RedBeam, this includes our cloud-based platform with integrated barcode and RFID support, mobile-enabled data capture, configurable asset attributes, and reporting capabilities around audits, maintenance, and depreciation. These tools allow you to centralize asset data, standardize tracking workflows, and integrate asset records with broader systems like ERP or ITSM platforms.