Case Study: NASA achieves 80% faster asset inventories with HID Global RFID asset management

NASA employs RFID asset management solution for data center and lab equipment

NASA, specifically the Langley Research Center, needed a better way to track thousands of critical data center assets and costly laboratory equipment moving between facilities. Existing barcode-based and manual inventory processes were time-consuming, inaccurate, and made it difficult to locate mission-critical equipment in real time.

HID Global, implemented through DataSpan, deployed an RFID asset management solution using CS101 handheld readers and HID RAIN® RFID UHF tags. The result was an 80% faster inventory process, 100% accuracy for mobile lab asset inventories, and a return on investment in just 18 months, with the solution also scalable across multiple NASA sites.

NASA

Steve Mercier

Senior Systems Engineer