Many data centers today inventory physical assets the same way grocery stores track food, with barcodes and scanners. It’s not efficient and a certain percentage of assets will become “lost” because asset databases haven’t been updated.

But Intel is considering adding active RFID tags to its chipsets, replacing barcode scanning with automated, wireless tracking of devices such as servers, networking computing modules, storage and other data center devices.

There are third-party vendors that already provide asset tracking with active RFID. But if Intel includes this functionality in its chipset, this could make RFID a near universal feature in data centers in the years to come.

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