Asset Tracking for Schools

We come from a state renowned for the quality of its school districts. Time and again, communities throughout Iowa are ranked as having some of the highest-performing public grade, middle, and high school systems in the country. With summer winding down and the school year starting up, we thought it was a good time to talk about some of the ways Metalcraft can help a school system keep track of its most valuable assets (besides, of course, the students it serves).

RFID asset tracking is one particularly good way of ensuring that the most costly pieces of school property are kept track of at any given time. Schools – let’s face it – are fairly easy targets for petty theft and vandalism, but with RFID technology in place, it’s infinitely harder for valuable school assets to vanish overnight or during a particularly distracting lunch-hour. The IT, A/V, gym equipment, and scientific laboratory equipment of schools are some of the most important resources that school districts have invested in. With RFID asset tracking in place on each item, the school year runs that much more seamlessly and effectively.

But RFID technology is only a starting point for asset tracking. School property ranging from desks, theater stage lighting, metal-shop, woodshop, and machine-shop equipment all need protecting too. Even if an individual piece of equipment doesn’t amount to as much of a long-term investment as, say, a laptop computer, this sort of property still ought to be used by multiple years of students, and thereby deserves protection.

Metalcraft provides plenty of other tracking solutions apart from RFID technology. Metal barcode nameplates, foil barcode nameplates, as well as polyester and plastic barcode labels all have their particular specialized uses in a school environment.

The United States spends an annual 3% of its GDP on education. While this figure may not seem so much, it amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars in supporting the coming generation of Americans. Schools in Iowa – and anywhere in this nation – deserve the kind of technological care and guidance that a good school should provide for its students. It’s not just assets that are the issue here. It is – in all seriousness – the future of our country.