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Finding the ROI Sweet Spot with RFID
Presented by: Tom Watson, AMI President & CEO
November 1, 2012
A recording with audio of this webinar is on our website.
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Tom Watson
President & CEO of Asset Management International
Tom Watson
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AMI – Product & Customers
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RFIDRadio Frequency Identification
Exploding in popularity
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Applications
What effect will it have on ITAM?
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Size and Cost
Costs and sizes are shrinking
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Poll #1:
What asset tracking technologies do you use today?- Manual- Barcode- Passive RFID- Active RFID
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RFID Tags – Passive vs. Active
Use both barcodes and RFID
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RFID Readers – Fixed Placement
Fixed readers
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RFID Readers – Hand-held
Portable readers
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Defining Requirements
Location Granularity = Cost
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Portal Readers
Portal readers work for data centers
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Rack Level Location Tracking
Less practical at rack level
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Case Study
Compared costs
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Baseline
Labor costs were estimated at$300K per year via barcode
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Active vs. Passive Implementation Costs
8xUsing Active RFID to rack level
8x or More!
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3-Year Total Cost (30K assets)
Active RFID w/Barcode
Passive RFID w/ Barcode
Barcode
Manual
Labor Tags Hardware Implementation
$0 $700,000 $1,400,000 $2,100,000 $2,800,000
TOTAL COST
TECH
NO
LOG
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PRO
ACH
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Three Year Cost Comparison
Active Model: $2,580,000
Passive Model: $580,000
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3-Year Return On Investment Sweet Spot
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$0
$-2,000,000
$-4,000,000
Active RFID w/ Barcode Passive RFID w/ Barcode Barcode
Start 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years
RETU
RN O
N IN
VEST
MEN
T (R
OI)
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Other Dividends
Lifecycle Speed and Accuracy
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Summary
• Lower initial cost• Fast return• Greater three-year savings
Passive RFID is the smart strategy right now.
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Questions?
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• Web: amitracks.com
• Phone: (877) 297-7618
• Presenter– Thomas Watson: [email protected]– President & CEO, Co-founder
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