Asset management using an asset tag device

A method comprising:

• discovering one or more available signals to obtain discovered signals;
• registering the one or more discovered signals;
• identifying one or more target beacon signals from the one or more registered signals to obtain one or more identified beacon signals;
• scanning the one or more identified beacon signals to obtain beacon information;
• sorting the one or more scanned signals by signal strength to determine an at least one highest strength signal;
• parsing the beacon information from the at least one highest strength signal;
• generating a tag signal comprising the parsed beacon information;
• and
• determining a location of an asset by comparing the tag signal to stored location information, wherein the stored location information describes a beacon layout.

An asset tag device comprising:

• a housing;
• a battery disposed within the housing;
• a circuit board disposed within the housing and in electrical communication with the battery, wherein the circuit board comprises:
• a local memory;
• a transceiver to:
• detect local signals to obtain detected local signals;
• and
• transmit a response packet;
• a processor to:
• identify the detected local signals;
• determine whether the detected local signals comprise at least one beacon signal;
• store, to the local memory, the at least one beacon signal;
• sort, in the local memory, the stored at least one beacon signal by proximity to the asset tag device;
• parse the sorted at least one beacon signal;
• and
• append tag information to the parsed at least one beacon signal to generate the response packet.