Product Detail

Features

• Windows-based
• Instantly perform accurate asset, gate, and equipment inventory tracking
• Automatic arrival/departure and gate operation with RFID
• Manual gate operation with keyboard and mouse
• Variety of standard reports
• Customized reports using Microsoft Access
• Manage up to eight readers from a single client with commercially available serial port extenders
• Client database continuously updated from the server PC
• Attach notes and special status information to non-tagged assets entering the site
• SmartWatch operates either standalone or as a client (when used with SmartWatch II server) and continues to operate when the LAN is down.
• SmartWatch II manages multiple remote client locations form a single host.

SmartWatch is an automated asset and gate management application for transportation facilities with several dozen to several thousand trucks, tractors, trailers, dollies, and other rolling assets. SmartWatch allows the user to instantly perform accurate asset, gate, and equipment inventory checks.

The user accesses a screen to monitor and control real-time gate activity, perform database maintenance, and generate reports. The user easily enters, deletes, or modifies detailed equipment information in a Microsoft Access-compatible database.

Operating in fully automatic mode using radio frequency identification (RFID) SmartPass® readers, SmartWatch continually monitors arrivals, departures, and manual equipment moves. The reader sends information from tagged equipment entering or leaving the facility via an RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 connection. The program continuously monitors the readers, validates tags, opens gates, and updates the yard inventory database as tagged equipment approaches the RFID readers.

For customers with multiple SmartWatch sites, SmartWatch II is a supervisor (server) application that maintains synchronized fleet and gate management data and provides central maintenance of one or more SmartWatch satellite stations with RFID readers. It allows for managing the databases of multiple remote SmartWatch locations from a single host.

SmartWatch II does not directly control gates or readers, but rather collects data from SmartWatch clients. SmartWatch II provides the capacity to centrally gather gate and asset-management event data and centrally administer the fleet data used by the gate management stations. Transactions from SmartWatch client locations and database updates from the host are updated automatically in real time.

SmartWatch implementation may start with stand-alone gate and inventory management in a single location and, as operations grow, additional sites can be added and integrated with SmartWatch II for central control and monitoring.

Specifications

SmartWatch Technology

• Windows-based
• Microsoft Access-compatible database
• RS-232, Rs-422, or RS-485 communications with RFID readers

• Automating arrivals/departures
• Automating gate operations
• Accurate near real-time and historical gate and equipment tracking at he client site
• Accurate near real-time and historical gate and equipment tracking for all remote sites at the SmartWatch II site
• Eliminating manual yard checks SmartWatch achieves productivity gains immediately.

System Requirements
To ensure optimal performance of the SmartWatch and SmartWatch II programs, TransCore recommends the following minimum system requirements.

• PC with available RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 communications port and minimum 233 MHz processor with 128 MB RAM
• Windows 95/98 or Windows NT operating system
• TCP/IP network interface (when using SmartWatch II)

Radio Frequency Identification Options
SmartWatch has been integrated with TransCore SmartPass RFID systems and can be integrated with other RFID systems as well.

Documentation

• SmartWatch User’s Manual
• SmartWatch II User’s Manual