Label
Standard asset label
Desks, chairs, cabinets in wood or plastic, and the general bulk of an office register.
Hardware
The tag is chosen for the asset, not the other way round.
Metal reflects radio. Liquid absorbs it. A label that reads perfectly on a wooden desk will not read at all on the lid of a laptop — which is why a single tag type for a whole building is a sign nobody surveyed the building.
Tags without batteries
The everyday range.
These carry no battery. The reader wakes them, they answer, and they go quiet again — so there is nothing to run flat and nothing to replace. This is the range that covers almost every asset register we build.
On-metal
On-metal label
Laptops, monitors, printers, servers. Built with a ground plane so it reads on a metal surface.
Hard tag
Rugged on-metal tag
Steel cabinets, shelving, racking, workshop tooling. Screwed or bonded, and meant to outlive the asset.
Plate
Metal-mount plate
Generators, inverters, HVAC plant, pumps. Withstands heat, vibration and outdoor weather.
Textile
Laundry tag
Linen, uniforms, theatre scrubs, hotel towels. Rated for repeated industrial wash and press cycles.
Library
Book and archive label
Books, case files, records. Thin enough to sit inside a cover, with a security bit that re-arms on return.
Tamper
Tamper-evident label
Small high-theft items — hand tools, cameras, test instruments. Destroys itself if removed.
Card
Custodian card
Staff and student identity. The credential a custodian taps to acknowledge that an asset is in their keeping.
Sensor
Temperature sensing tag
Cold rooms, vaccine fridges, pharmacy stores. Records the temperature the asset was actually held at.
Why it matters
Metal and water are the two things that defeat a tag.
Radio at this frequency is reflected by metal and absorbed by liquid, and institutional buildings are full of both. Steel shelving, filing cabinets, server racks, chillers, plant rooms.
The fix is not more power. It is the right tag, with a ground plane or a spacer, positioned where it can actually be read. That decision is made during the site survey, before a single tag is ordered.
Tags with batteries
When the register needs to know where, not just what.
A tag with no battery is silent until a reader wakes it, so it can tell you an asset was seen — never where it is right now. When that is genuinely the requirement, these are the answer. They cost more and their batteries eventually need replacing, so we specify them only where the question demands it.
Beacon
Location beacon
Trolleys, roll cages, wheelchairs, mobile equipment that moves between rooms all day.
Precision
Precision location tag
High-value or safety-critical items where knowing the room is not enough.
Portal
Exit portal
Doorways and gates. Not a tag — the reader that logs everything passing through.
How we work
Nothing is ordered before the survey.
Concrete, rebar, foil-lined packaging, air-conditioning ducts and steel shelving all change how a tag behaves. No table, including ours, replaces a read test on your actual assets in your actual rooms.
So we survey first, test on your equipment, then order. And when the tags arrive, our team applies them — you get a working register rather than a box of labels.
