Asset & Equipment Custody · Emerging Application

Who has the laptop, the tool, the vehicle key — right now.

Every business that hands out equipment ends up running the same sign-out sheet, on paper or in a spreadsheet — and the sheet is exactly as reliable as whoever remembered to update it. Digitag replaces it with a tag on the equipment itself: a scan on handover, a scan on return, a permanent record of who has what, with nothing to forget to fill in.

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How It Would Work

Custody changes hands the moment a scan says it does — not before.

  1. A tamper-proof tag is applied to a piece of equipment once, when it enters service.
  2. Handing it to someone is a scan — their name, the item, and the time, all recorded together.
  3. The record stays open for as long as they hold it — no separate log to keep up to date.
  4. Returning it is another scan, closing that custody record and freeing the item for the next handover.
  5. At any point, who currently holds any tagged item is a lookup, not a search.

This is a pilot-ready application of the mechanism described on Digitag's patent page — describing how a rollout would work for a business that wants to try it, not a named customer already running it.

Where This Applies

Anywhere equipment moves between people and the current sign-out sheet is the weak point.

Construction & Site Tools

Power tools and site equipment move between crews daily — a tag makes each handover a record instead of a guess when something goes missing.

Corporate IT Assets

Laptops and phones issued to staff, tagged and tracked to a person — no spreadsheet to reconcile when someone leaves the company.

Fleet Vehicle Keys

Which driver has which vehicle, right now — a scan at key-out and key-in instead of a whiteboard in the depot office.

Hospital & Medical Equipment

Wheelchairs, monitors, and mobile equipment tagged and tracked ward-to-ward — findable when it's needed, not when someone remembers where it went.

Why It Matters

For the Business

A custody record that's never out of date.

No sign-out sheet to chase up, no spreadsheet reconciled at month-end — the record updates itself at the moment custody actually changes.

For the Custodian

Proof they returned it, not just a memory that they did.

Handing equipment back is a scan, not a verbal handover — a permanent record that it changed hands, on both sides.

For an Audit or Loss Investigation

A trail that already exists.

When equipment goes missing, the question isn't "who might have had it" — the custody history is already on record, in order.

Where This Stands Today

Ready to pilot — not yet a deployed product.

The core mechanism has run in production for years in a different industry (see Travel & Hospitality →), and powers ScreenSync's live in-store network today. Applying it to custody tracking is a direct extension of the same tag-scan-record sequence — we're describing how it would work for a business that wants to pilot it, not a named customer already running it.

Know who has what, right now.

The mechanism is proven elsewhere. Let's talk about what a pilot would look like for your equipment.

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