New Haven Public Schools

City of New Haven Public Schools Asset Tracking System 

Queralt is currently engaged in a project with the New Haven Board of Education to install a comprehensive asset tracking system to monitor and control PC assets throughout its network of elementary, middle, and high schools.  The goal of the project is to provide school administration with up-to-the-minute information on all computer assets in the school system, assure asset security, improve asset utilization, and monitor operating conditions in server and wiring closets.

 We currently have fully functional installations in the New Haven School System’s administrative offices and 7 of the 32 schools that make up the system.  Using active RFID technology, this Real Time Location System currently tracks 1,500 IT assets, monitors environmental conditions in sixteen locations, and monitors the security of twenty laptop carts. 

In addition to regularly scheduled management reports, key school system administrative staff members, including IT managers and security staff, receive alerts and other notifications that provide real-time information about PC asset location and utilization, unauthorized movement, and temperature and humidity measurements for critical areas such as server and wiring closets to assure suitable and stable operating conditions.  All asset tags incorporate a tamper monitoring feature so in the event someone attempts to remove a tag from an asset, the system sends a tamper alert to the appropriate staff members notifying them of the asset’s current location and tamper status.

The first phase of the project went live in April 2008.  Since then, school officials have recovered several missing IT assets and intervened on the unauthorized movement of many other assets.