Abstract
Owing to the way networks grow and the advent of mobile computing, the task of physically locating assets is becoming increasingly complex. Network management tools are usually not suitable for management of dynamically moving assets and provide almost no facilities for asset localisation. In addition, asset management products delegate to human operators the task to identify physical asset's location.
JLocator is a Java-based system that allows both static and dynamic assets to be physically localised. Based on SNMP and Java, it enables users to locate assets through a simple web interface and allows asset management systems to take advantage of asset location information provided by JLocator. Finally, its distributed architecture makes it scalable and completely platform-independent.
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Deri, L. Java-Based Mobile Asset Location. Mobile Networks and Applications 6, 167–174 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011452424152
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