uCAAT 2.0, the software behind every project.
uCAAT 2.0 is our own tracking platform. It grew out of RFID projects run by a partner company, and we rebuilt it as one system that serves many clients, each kept separate. Your team uses it in a browser or as a Windows app. We use it to set up, watch and look after your system.
- Runs in
- A web browser, or the Windows app
- Readers
- USB, network, handheld and keyboard-style scanners
- Sign-in
- Password, authenticator app, or a code by email
- Your data
- Kept apart from every other client's
Each screen answers one question
Every picture below uses invented demo data. The layout, labels and colours are the ones your staff will see.
How do things stand today?
The first screen after sign-in. It shows the whole site in a few numbers and charts, and it is where open alerts are listed.
- Headline numbers. Items nobody has seen for a week turn amber, and open alerts turn red.
- How long items sit in each zone. Long bars usually point to a bottleneck or a forgotten corner.
- Stages you define, such as in service, in repair or in storage.
| STATUS | NAME | CODE | ZONE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OK | Torque wrench T-22 | TW-0022 | Tool crib | |
| OK | Gauge block set | GB-0004 | QC | |
| DUE | Welding jig J-104 | JG-0104 | Line 2 | |
| LOST | Pallet jack PJ-07 | PJ-0007 | Receiving | |
| NEVER | Calibration kit | CK-0001 INCOMPLETE | - |
Where is this item, and when was it last seen?
One list of everything you track, renamed to your own words. Here a plant calls them tools. A museum calls them objects.
- Filter to what needs attention: due for a check, signal lost, or never checked.
- Tick several rows to record a location, delete or export them together.
- Hold a tag on a connected reader and its row lights up. An unknown tag offers to add a new item.
Which room is it in right now?
Your floor plan, with each room drawn as a zone. A gateway in each room hears the tags inside it, and the map updates by itself.
- Search for an item, and the room it was last heard in lights up blue.
- When a rule is broken, the room flashes red and the alert bar opens across the top of the app.
- Each room shows how many tagged items are in it, named the way your staff name it.
When does someone need to know?
Rules are built from menus, not code. The sentence under them reads back exactly what the rule will do.
- An important alert puts a red bar across the top of the app, beeps, and emails the people on the rule.
- Choose any item, a type of item, or one item. Then choose what counts: entering a zone, leaving one, moving without an approved transfer, or going unseen for a set time.
- Quiet rules are only listed. Important rules interrupt.
Is every reader working?
Each reader reports in regularly. When one goes quiet, the page says so, and so do we.
- Plug a reader into the computer and press Find readers. Hold a tag against it while it searches.
- Every card shows who set the reader up, the zone it sits in, and the last tag it read.
- A reader that stops reporting is flagged with what to check first.
What did we just count?
For stock-takes and room checks. Pick the zone once, then scan. Every scan lands in that zone.
- The zone you are standing in. Change it when you move rooms.
- Each scan is confirmed on screen as it happens.
- A tag nobody has registered is offered for adding, instead of being ignored.
What if the connection drops?
The same screens run in a browser and as a Windows app. The Windows app reads readers plugged into that computer, and keeps running in the system tray when its window is closed, so alarms still sound.
- Offline, the app shows the last saved data and keeps your scans on the device. They send when the connection is back.
- New versions install themselves when you press Update and restart.
Roles made of switches
Each role is a named list of switches: see the map, add items, approve transfers, change alert rules, read the access log, and so on. A person can hold more than one role, and roles can be limited to certain rooms or sites.
Your own managers look after your people and roles. Our field staff only see the clients they are assigned to, and every time one of our staff opens your data, it is recorded where you can see it.
How your data is handled
Kept apart from other clients
Each client's data sits in its own section of the database, with its own database login. One client's screens cannot read another's.
Three ways to sign in
A password, an authenticator app, or a one-time code sent by email. Repeated wrong guesses lock the account for a while.
An access log you can read
You can see who viewed your data and when, including our own staff.
A clean exit
When a contract ends you get a full export, and we delete our copy. Backups expire on a fixed schedule, and the deletion is logged.
History you control
You decide how long records linked to people are kept. After that they are anonymised, and item history stays.
People tracked for safety only
Worker badges are for headcounts, help buttons and restricted areas. We help you write the notice that tells staff what is tracked and why.
Getting data out
A documented API lets your IT team pull items, locations, moves and alerts into other systems. Lists export to spreadsheets, and we build reports and dashboards in the reporting tools you already use.
Getting data in
uCAAT 2.0 reads passive RFID from desk, network and handheld readers, Bluetooth tags through the gateway in each room, and keyboard-style barcode scanners. Adding a new reader type is a settings file, not new software.
See uCAAT 2.0 with someone who runs it.
We will walk you through the screens using demo data from your industry, and answer questions about your site as we go.
Or email contact@avnisynapse.com
- We reply within one business day.
- We set a time for a screen-share of about half an hour.
- If it looks useful for your site, the next step is a site walk.