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Knowledge Centre: Critical Asset Visibility and Chain of Custody

Practical guides for people responsible for critical assets, chain of custody, audit and dependable operations.

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Digital Chain of Custody

What is a digital chain of custody?

How location, sensor data and immutable logs can create an auditable history of an asset’s journey.

Elections

Improving election-day asset visibility

How live monitoring and retained movement history can complement existing processes without replacing them.

Elections

Ballot box arrival confirmation

Separate a digital site indication from the authoritative receiving and check-in process.

Connectivity

Tracking during mobile signal gaps

Understand the difference between live status, last-seen time and history uploaded after service returns.

Guide overview

Four layers make location operationally useful.

Digital chain of custody is not a single sensor reading. It is a structured view of an asset’s journey that retains enough context for day-to-day decisions and later review.

  1. 01
    Identity

    Connect the physical asset to a known tracker and an accountable operational record.

  2. 02
    Movement

    Record current and historical position rather than relying on a one-time location check.

  3. 03
    Context

    Combine sites, geofences, condition readings and device events to explain the journey.

  4. 04
    Accountability

    Retain user and system activity so changes, exports and decisions can be reviewed.

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See it in context

Follow the complete asset journey in ATLAS.

Explore how the map, event history, site status and audit record work together in the platform.