to inventory network

The continuous stream of data provided by automated systems can track and monitor assets from the day they are provisioned to the day they are retired. Having the information to inventory network usage with financial considerations is key: the life of a server may be five years; an outsourced datacenter management contract might last four years; a typical lease on a computing hardware might last three years.

Active RFID tags featuring battery lives approaching six years are built to outlive the useful lives of most every IT asset in the modern datacenter.