Patent ID: 8558694

Claim:
An information technology tracking system, comprising: at least one electronic resource in a localized defined facility, the at least one electronic resource having a first connector; more than one broadcasting unit in the localized defined facility, each broadcasting unit having a known and different position and a different frequency from any other broadcasting unit in the localized defined facility; a secure device connectible to the first connector of the at least one electronic resource, the secure device further comprising: a second connector to transmit and receive data from the at least one electronic resource; a receiver to receive wireless signals emitted from the more than one broadcasting unit; a nonvolatile memory; an optical transmitter/receiver to emit radiation and receive reflected radiation from a reference and store the distance from the secure device to the reference; processing logic to determine spatial coordinates of the at least one electronic resource from the wireless signals received by the receiver and the distance between the optical transmitter/receiver and the reference; wherein data received from the at least one electronic resource and wireless signals received in the receiver are stored in the memory.