Introducing Cisco Asset Tracking: Your Network Just Learned a New Trick 

Not long ago, the wireless network had one primary job: connecting people and devices. 

Today, it’s doing so much more. 

With Cisco Spaces, it helps people navigate sprawling hospitals, campuses, and workplaces. It reveals how spaces are being used, helps organizations optimize operations, advance sustainability goals, and make smarter business decisions. 

And now, the same network that powers all your smart space outcomes – can help organizations find what matters. 

We’re excited to introduce Cisco Asset Tracking – an end-to-end solution built on Cisco wireless infrastructure and Cisco Spaces OS that help organizations, search, navigate, find and manage assets. 

To help organizations get started faster, we’re offering an exclusive launch offer: 

From wheelchairs and IV pumps in healthcare to AV equipment in workplaces, luggage carts in hotels and airports, and tools, and scanners on manufacturing floors – assets are constantly on the move. 

And when nobody knows where they are, everything slows down.  

Cisco Asset Tracking helps organizations spend less time searching and more time doing what matters – without deploying gateways, overlays, or another disconnected tracking system.  

But what makes this different from any other solution in the industry is the approach behind it. 

For years, organizations have treated asset tracking as a separate point solution. Solutions that require gateways, dedicated infrastructure, and its own software. 

Cisco takes a fundamentally different approach. 

What if the wireless network you own already knew where things were? 

What if the same infrastructure helping people connect, navigate, and understand their spaces could also help them locate and manage the assets that keep those spaces running? 

That’s the idea behind Cisco Asset Tracking. 

This launch represents another step toward realizing the full potential of the network.  

A network that doesn’t just connect people and devices, but a network that becomes the foundation to realize infinite Smart Space outcomes. 

Built differently from the ground up 

So how does the network suddenly know where things are? 

It starts with the foundation. 

The Foundation: Cisco Wireless + Cisco Spaces OS 

Cisco Spaces turns your network into a sensor for asset tracking. No gateways. No beacons. No shadow networks to deploy and maintain. Cisco Spaces becomes the intelligence layer – the operating system for your buildings. It digitizes physical spaces with AI-powered maps, automatically placing assets on intuitive 3D maps that provide a real-time visual view across buildings, floors, and rooms. 

It also provides a common platform for onboarding, managing, and monitoring IoT devices, while its multi-technology location engine intelligently fuses data from Wi-Fi, BLE, UWB, and iOS Nearby interactions to deliver highly accurate location insights. 

In addition, Spaces also provides AI-ready data to power your asset management workflows, automation, and deeper enterprise integrations. 

Here’s how it all comes together: 

Cisco Asset Tags 

Cisco Asset Tags were purpose-built for Cisco Wireless APs – leveraging built-in BLE and UWB radios to deliver precise location without requiring another layer of infrastructure – providing flexibility across different environments while helping organizations future-proof their deployments. 

Purpose-built for Cisco wireless access points, they leverage built-in BLE and UWB radios to enable precise, infrastructure-native location tracking without the need for additional gateways or overlays. 

Built-in NFC makes onboarding simple, while more than four years of battery life helps reduce operational overhead at scale. 

Mobile First Experience  

Most asset tracking solutions tell you where an asset was. Cisco Asset Tracking helps you get to it. That’s why it was designed as a mobile-first experience. 

Most asset tracking experiences end with a map pin or gives you last known location. Cisco Asset Tracking goes several steps further. NFC makes onboarding effortless. Interactive 3D maps show exactly where an asset is. Turn-by-turn navigation gets you there. And when you’re close, iOS Nearby interaction provides precise distance and direction to help you identify the correct asset. 

One Place to Manage Everything

Cisco Asset Tracking provides a centralized admin dashboard to onboard, monitor, manage, and report on assets across the organization.

Track inventory, battery health, utilization, and asset status. Configure alerts, Manage permissions, and gain visibility across locations – all from a single dashboard.

Why Cisco Asset Tracking?

Most asset tracking projects don’t fail because technology doesn’t work. They struggle because they’re built as standalone systems that require their own infrastructure, management tools, and operational processes. As deployments expand across buildings, campuses, and locations, complexity grows, costs increase, and scaling becomes harder than expected.

Cisco Asset Tracking takes a different approach.

Built on an outcome-ready network

Cisco validates network designs to help ensure organizations are ready to support asset tracking and future Smart Spaces initiatives from day one.

One platform to scale fast

Cisco Spaces provides a single platform to manage, monitor, and scale asset tracking across your enterprise. Roll out across your enterprise in days – not months.

Lower TCO, faster time to value

Deploy asset tracking on the same hardware, platform and maps powering indoor navigation, space utilization, environmental analytics, and workplace experiences, reducing management complexity and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Applications Across Industries

If you can tag it, you can track it.

Whether it’s wheelchairs and IV pumps in hospitals, AV equipment in workplaces, luggage carts in hotels, or tools and pallets in manufacturing facilities, Cisco Asset Tracking helps teams quickly find and manage the assets that keep operations moving.

Frontline teams spend less time searching.

Clinical Engineering and Operations teams gain greater visibility and control.

IT teams get a solution that scales without adding complexity at a lower TCO

Different industries. Different assets.

The same outcome: knowing where critical assets are when you need them most.

Built for an Open Ecosystem

Cisco Asset Tracking was built to fit into your ecosystem – not replace it.

Cisco Asset Tags work with ecosystem partner applications, while Cisco’s mobile app and dashboard support third-party tags, giving organizations the flexibility to evolve at their own pace.

We designed Cisco Asset Tracking around the people who need to find assets most. By bringing NFC onboarding, intelligent search, turn-by-turn navigation, and Nearby Find into one mobile experience, we’ve made it faster and easier for frontline teams to locate the right asset – at enterprise scale.

-Bharath Jayaram, Product manager, Cisco Spaces

Availability and Licensing

Cisco Asset Tags and the Cisco Asset Tracking mobile app require a Cisco Spaces Premier license.

The Asset Tracking dashboard is included with Cisco Spaces Advantage, which is also included in Cisco Wireless Advantage and Meraki Advanced.

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