The maturity level of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has grown constantly and the market offers first components and products. Nevertheless the commercial breakthrough in industries has not yet happened due to the lack of economically justifiable applications. This paper presents the management of assets as one promising field of application for WSN. In particular we show how the existing asset management process for mobile measurement devices at Fraunhofer IIS is optimized with a WSN-based asset management system
