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Inventory Management

Techs help organizations institute inventory management practices to protect

company assets. These include barcodes and asset tags on items, among other

things.

Barcodes

Many inventory items have simple stickers or printed labels with barcodes—

unique symbols/numbers that track specific items. Figure 28-3 shows a

typical barcode. A barcode acts as a fingerprint for an item, binary code that

can be readily scanned. One drawback to barcodes is that they’re read-only.

You can’t add data or information to them at all.

Figure 28-3 Barcode on an SSD encoding its serial number

Asset Tags

Asset tags can use the radio frequency identification (RFID) wireless

networking protocol to keep track of inventory (see Figure 28-4). The asset

tag includes an RFID tag (consisting of a microchip and antenna) that an

RFID scanner or reader can electronically read and identify even without line

of sight to the item. Most RFID tags are passive, meaning that the tag

receives all the power it needs from the scanner’s signal! An active RFID tag,

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