We have designed a simple but very effective durable plastic clip that will fit a range of different cable diameters and can be applied to the cable quickly with just one hand, actually with just two fingers. Inside this clip is a visual ID tag, with an NFC (Near Field Communication) device, nicely concealed behind. We supply a simple app that will work on any smartphone, which can write to and read from the NFC tag. Â
It can hold over 500 characters of information about the cable, including location, type, termination point, purpose, installer, and GPS location. A PIN number can be entered to protect the data held on the NFC tag. This data can also then be streamed in real-time to the cloud, where it can be absorbed by existing data systems and parsed to form maps, spreadsheets, databases, etc.