About the Award-Winning Najran University Deployment
“Our system is fully compliant with the requirements of the Ministry of Higher education in Saudi Arabia for accurate inventory and ownership tracking,” said DEPCO CEO Edwin Chikhani. “Asset Trail, [DEPCO’s Trail-AMS asset tracking solution] combined with RF Code, provides the most complete, real-time asset tracking solution available in the Middle East.”
Najran University in Saudi Arabia was looking to improve its asset tracking across its 21 campuses in Najran and Sharoura so it could reduce its costs related to missing, lost or stolen assets. It turned to DEPCO Systems to help. Phase 1 of the project involved tracking assets for eight campuses, which included 16 buildings housing some 23,000 tagged assets. In addition to installing close to 50 readers, DEPCO also employed handheld readers, to provide mobility in monitoring and tracking. Close to 135 RTLS locators were also installed.
As the award notes, using the DEPCO/RF Code solution, the University has not only reduced the amount of “missing” inventory, but also now has a more reliable and accurate real time asset tracking, lifecycle management and asset inventory process for the university’s fixed and mobile assets.
Phase 2 is underway now. Security, integration to access control systems, and fleet management are among the new applications that will be added to the initial installation.
