Method and system for physical asset tracking
A method for tracking physical assets can include: receiving a digital asset; determining an asset identifier for the digital asset; generating an asset barcode; optionally facilitating printing and sending of the asset to an asset recipient; determining an asset event for the asset; and notifying a sender of an asset event.
1. A method comprising:
generating an asset barcode for an asset associated with a sender, wherein the asset is labeled with the asset barcode and shipped to a recipient;
receiving information in response to a scan of the asset barcode by a device of the recipient, wherein the information comprises an asset identifier and a timestamp associated with a time of occurrence of the scan;
determining a received-by-recipient event based on the asset identifier and the timestamp; and
triggering an action based on the asset identifier in response to the receipt of the received-by-recipient event, wherein the action comprises providing the information to the sender.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the asset identifier further comprises an order identifier.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the asset comprises a second asset barcode; wherein the method further comprises receiving a delivery update comprising the asset identifier in response to a scan of the second asset barcode by a delivery service.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the asset barcode and the second asset barcode are the same.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information update further comprises a geolocation associated with the scan.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a recipient metric associated with the recipient based on the received-by-recipient event.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising adding the recipient metric to a set of recipient metrics associated with a plurality of recipients.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the recipient metric comprises a recipient response time.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the asset barcode comprises a QR code.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sender initiates an out-of-band communication to the recipient based on the information.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the asset is programmatically generated from HTML that specifies a value to include on the asset.
12. A system comprising a processing system configured to:
determine an asset identifier for an asset associated with a sender;
generate an asset barcode based on the asset identifier, wherein the asset barcode is scannable by a device of a recipient, wherein the asset is labeled with the asset barcode and mailed to the recipient, wherein the asset barcode comprises a QR code;
in response to a scan of the asset barcode by the device, receive an update, comprising the asset identifier and a timestamp associated with the scan, and
determine a received-by-recipient event based on the asset identifier and the timestamp, wherein the processing system is further configured to determine a recipient metric based on the received-by-recipient event.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the asset identifier comprises an asset group identifier.
14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing system is further configured to generate a notification to the sender comprising the received-by-recipient event.
15. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing system is further configured to aggregate recipient metrics associated with each of a plurality of received-by-recipient events for a plurality of assets.
16. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing system is further configured to send the recipient metric to the sender.
17. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing system is further configured to:
determine a second asset barcode; and
receive a delivery update comprising the asset identifier in response to a scan of the second asset barcode by a delivery service.
18. A system comprising a processing system configured to:
determine an asset identifier for an asset associated with a sender;
generate an asset barcode based on the asset identifier, wherein the asset barcode is scannable by a device of a recipient, wherein the asset is labeled with the asset barcode and mailed to the recipient;
in response to a scan of the asset barcode by the device, receive an update, comprising the asset identifier and a timestamp associated with the scan, wherein the asset barcode comprises a QR code; and
determine a received-by-recipient event based on the asset identifier and the timestamp.