Samsara Asset Tag sensor
By Adam Freill
Construction Equipment Risk Management SoftwareSamsara’s Asset Tag is an enterprise-grade IoT device designed to meet customer demand for tracking and managing small, high-value assets.
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Samsara’s Asset Tag is an enterprise-grade IoT device designed to meet customer demand for tracking and managing small, high-value assets, including toolboxes, jackhammers, totes, and more. The device leverages the Samsara Network to offer increased visibility into the location of mission-critical equipment and tools to minimize downtime spent searching for lost or stolen items, reduce associated costs, and simplify inventory management.
With sensors getting more compact, sophisticated and easier to install, they can track anything, big or small. The Asset Tag was built around this opportunity: to provide unprecedented access and visibility into valuable assets at scale. By connecting critical assets to the cloud, customers can capture and analyze location insights to significantly improve operational efficiency.
The tags help reduce and prevent losses from stolen assets, and aid in their recovery through the use of advanced location tracking technology. They also reduce downtime and boost productivity by sharing asset locations with workers in the field via the Samsara Driver App and avoid service disruptions with inventory filtering, which pulls a summary of assets and applies filters to identify which tools are in close proximity.
Powerful location tracking capabilities within the Asset Tag are enabled by the Samsara Network, made up of millions of IoT devices worldwide. This network coverage powered by Samsara devices leverages industrial-grade BLE technology and offers enterprise reliability designed to withstand the ruggedized, complex environments of physical operations.
“About a year ago, the Asset Tag was born from a radical idea that we could use the millions of Samsara Gateways we have out in the field to create a network, enabling ‘tags’ to ping off those devices. With this, we’d unlock a level of asset tracking that was previously impossible and solve even more real-world problems for our customers,” explained David Gal, vice-president of product and engineering at Samsara. “After months of rigorous testing and customer feedback, I’m excited to see this vision become a reality. As we further connect every aspect of physical operations, we can turn massive amounts of data into valuable insights and drive real results.”
