IT-Austria Taps RFID to Track Assets

IT-Austria, which operates large data centers for the Austrian financial sector and reported sales of €165 million in 2007, has implemented EPC RFID technology to track IT assets through their complete lifecycles, from purchase through installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. The project was completed at the end of 2008, at three separate data center sites in Vienna, and includes approximately 10,000 tagged components, such as server racks, IT hardware and other office equipment.

Technology solution provider Tricon and Rodi IT Consulting, an independent project consultancy, helped implement the system, which employs a variety of tags and tag housings designed to fit different types of IT assets, and able to be attached to metal, plastic or glass. All of the tags contain EPC Gen 2 RFID inlays from Alien Technology.