The inspection history
The equipment’s past inspections, in order, without opening a binder or searching a spreadsheet.
Inspection traceability
Inspection traceability by QR code and NFC: one scan, and the equipment file opens.
Octav gives each piece of equipment a QR code to print and a link to program into an NFC tag. In the field, a phone is all it takes to open its record online: inspection history, documents and reports.
What a scan gives you right away
The label is only a way in. What matters is what it opens: the complete equipment file, right where you need it.
Reports and documents
Inspection reports and documents linked to the equipment, ready to download from its record.
The same access for your clients
The inspector scans to find the equipment on site; your client scans to view its file.
QR code or NFC: two ways to label equipment
Both lead to the same record. They are not placed in the same spot and they do not age the same way.
QR code
A printed label, read by a phone camera. Easy to apply, easy to replace.
NFC tag
A chip you program with the record’s link, read by bringing an NFC-capable phone close, with no aiming. Useful when the label is exposed, dirty or hard to reach.
Both lead to the same record
Whichever you choose, the scan opens the equipment record in Octav, with its history and documents.
A label alone is not traceability
A QR code stuck on poorly named equipment points to a record nobody can find. Traceability starts with how the fleet is identified and described.
A unique identifier per piece of equipment
A usable name from the moment of entry
A coding scheme readable in the field and at the office
A method for equipment with no nameplate
A shared nomenclature across all sites
Documents attached to the right record
Frequently asked questions about inspection traceability
By giving it a unique identifier, carried by a QR code label or an NFC tag placed on the equipment. In Octav, that identifier opens the equipment record directly: inspection history, documents and reports.
A QR code is read with a phone camera and printed on a label; an NFC tag is read by bringing an NFC-capable phone close. The choice depends on the environment and the type of equipment. Octav provides both: the QR code to print and the link to program into the tag.
Yes. The QR code and the NFC tag can be read by the inspector and by the client, who can then view the file for their equipment.
Yes. Identifying equipment by QR code or NFC is part of the Octav core features, included whichever module you activate.
Octav demo
See QR code traceability on your own equipment?
A demo runs on your equipment and your vocabulary: from the label to the record, then from the record to the history.