Asset Management
Asset Management plays an important role in many of today’s organisations and industries. Whether it’s in the tracking of raw materials in a warehouse, tracking and monitoring parcels or containers as part of a shipping process, or tracking medical equipment in a hospital, the basic need exists to ‘keep a close eye’ on the assets that hold significant value.
NXP's world-class low-power wireless technology and software provides a comprehensive platform for asset management solutions, offering a low-cost tagging and infrastructure solution for tracking and monitoring valuable assets.
Key applications
- Equipment tracking in Medical environments such as hospitals
- Inventory management and monitoring in warehouses
- Monitoring and tracking parcels in shipping
- Personnel tracking for security and fire safety
- Tracking and monitoring in retail
Wireless solution
Our JN51xx wireless microcontrollers, combined with our JenNet-based Active RFID platform, form a wireless connectivity backbone for the solution. The platform utilises a broadcast mechanism for the tagged assets, allowing them to roam freely and to ‘check-in’ with the periodicity required by the application.
The JN51xx wireless microcontrollers are feature-rich devices that, in addition to an IEEE802.15.4-compliant 2.4GHz radio and 32-bit CPU, contain a wealth of on-chip peripherals to support your application needs. These include 21 GPIOs, ADC, DAC, PWM, timers, UART and SPI. If you need additional peripherals, then our industry standard I²C port combined with any of the devices from our I²C interface and connectivity portfolio provides an optimal way for you to expand or enhance I/O capabilities to your individual requirements.
Our Active RFID software solution offers unrivalled levels of performance and functionality. The roaming broadcast mechanism of the tags, combined with the ultra-low power consumption of the JN51xx wireless microcontroller, enables multi-year battery to be achieved from a coin cell.
The Active RFID software is developed in-house and is highly optimised to the JN51xx platform. Simple C-based APIs are provided to streamline software development, although in many instances the standard out-of-box configuration will be more than adequate.