Asset management for information technology resources

A secure device comprising:

• a connector to transmit and receive data from an electronic resource;
• a receiver to receive wireless signals;
• a nonvolatile memory;
• an optical transmitter and receiver to emit radiation and receive reflected radiation from a reference and store the position of the secure device with respect to the reference;
• wherein data is received from the electronic resource and wireless signals received in the receiver are stored in the memory.

A secure device comprising:

• a connector to transmit and receive data from an electronic resource;
• a receiver to receive wireless signals;
• a nonvolatile memory;
• a gyroscopic level;
• wherein data is received from the electronic resource and wireless signals received in the receiver are stored in the memory.

A method to receive information from one or more information technology resources in a localized defined facility, comprising:

• inserting a locator device into an electronic data connector of the one or more information technology resources;
• activating the locator device;
• the locator device interrogating and receiving data from the one or more information technology resources;
• transmitting wireless signals from at least two different transmitters in the localized and defined facility, each transmitter transmitting a different frequency;
• for each of the one or more information technology resources, the locator device receiving wireless signals from the at least two different transmitters in the localized and defined facility of the one or more information technology resources;
• emitting and receiving reflected radiation from a radiation source in the locator device to and from a reference in the facility;
• processing the wireless signals and a distance from the reference to the locator device to determine spatial coordinates of each of the one or more information technology resources;
• the locator device storing the data received from the one or more information technology resources in a nonvolatile memory in the locator device.

A method to receive information from one or more information technology resources, comprising:

• inserting a locator device into an electronic data connector of the one or more information technology resources;
• activating the locator device;
• the locator device interrogating and receiving data from the one or more information technology resources;
• for each of the one or more information technology resources, the locator device receiving wireless signals from at least two different transmitters in the facility of the one or more information technology resources;
• the locator device emitting a beam to a reference;
• the locator device receiving a reflection of the beam from the reference;
• for each of the one or more information technology resources, processing logic within the locator device calculating a distance from the locator device to the reference;
• the locator device storing the distance of each of the one or more information technology resources in the nonvolatile memory.

A method to receive information from one or more information technology resources, comprising:

• inserting a locator device into an electronic data connector of the one or more information technology resources;
• activating the locator device;
• the locator device interrogating and receiving data from the one or more information technology resources;
• for each of the one or more information technology resources, the locator device receiving wireless signals from at least two different transmitters in the facility of the one or more information technology resources;
• the locator device storing the data received from the one or more information technology resources in a nonvolatile memory in the locator device;
• removing the locator device from the one or more information technology resources;
• connecting the locator device to a computer;
• downloading the information technology resource data and the stored wireless signals for each of the one or more information technology resources to the computer;
• the computer performing at least one of the following:
• calculating the spatial coordinates of each of the one or more information technology resources;
• creating/updating an asset database with the information technology resource data and its respective spatial coordinates;
• creating/updating physical diagrams of a facility in which the information technology resource is located;
• creating/updating information associated with use of the one or more information technology resources.

A computer program product for receiving information technology asset data and location data of an information technology asset in a defined localized facility, the computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable storage memory having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:

• first program instructions to receive predetermined information from an information technology resource and store the predetermined information in a nonvolatile memory;
• second program instructions to receive wireless signals from more than one wireless transmitters in the defined localized facility in which the information technology resource is located, each transmitter transmitting a different frequency;
• third program instructions to transmit radiation to and receive reflected radiation from a reference within the defined localized facility;
• fourth program instructions to calculate the position of the information technology resource in the defined localized facility from the wireless signals and the reflected radiation;
• fifth program instructions to transmit the predetermined information and the calculated position of the information technology resource to one or more computer program applications.