Displays and peripherals

The long tail: the items that are easiest to lose track of and the ones nobody thinks to log. Where a line says check rather than naming an exact spot, we haven’t confirmed it on our own unit — photograph what you find and tell us.

Monitors

On the hardware: the label is on the back of the panel, often behind or beside the stand mount — you may need to pop the stand off. Dell monitors carry a Service Tag just like Dell computers.

From software — much faster when a machine has four displays hanging off it. Windows PowerShell:

Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi WmiMonitorID | ForEach-Object {
  '{0} — {1}' -f (-join [char[]]($_.UserFriendlyName -ne 0)), (-join [char[]]($_.SerialNumberID -ne 0))
}

Linux, reading each display’s EDID:

for f in /sys/class/drm/*/edid; do [ -s "$f" ] && edid-decode "$f" | grep -iE "display product (name|serial)"; done

macOS: system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType.

Many Dell and BenQ panels also show the serial in their on-screen menu, usually under Others or Information — press the monitor’s menu button and look before you unmount anything.

The LG 55" webOS display is a TV, so it answers in its own settings instead: Settings → All Settings → General → About This TV (older webOS builds: Support → TV Information) shows the model and serial. The label is on the back panel as well.

The VT207 touch monitor and other touch panels carry their label on the back or the underside of the stand; the touch controller is part of the panel, so there’s one serial, not two.

Controllers, trackers, and styluses

Those have their own page — see Accessories , which covers controllers, MX Ink and VR Ink styluses, Elite Straps, base stations, trackers, docks, drives, and what to do with the items that carry no serial at all.

Leap Motion and Ultraleap controllers belong here rather than there: the label is on the underside of the housing, and the Ultraleap control panel software reports the connected device when it’s plugged into a workstation.

Motion capture

The PhaseSpace system is one asset made of many serialized parts: each camera has an ID and a serial on its body label, and the server/hub has its own. The PhaseSpace software lists the connected camera IDs when the system is running, which beats reading eight labels off a rig that’s mounted near the ceiling.

Log the system as a single asset — model, server serial, and camera count — and keep the per-camera IDs in the asset notes. Cameras on a fixed rig belong to the room, not to a person’s check-out.

Cameras and depth sensors

• Intel RealSense: on the underside label, and from software with rs-enumerate-devices (Intel’s SDK, Windows and Linux) — it prints the serial of every connected camera.
• Azure Kinect / Kinect v2: label on the underside of the unit. The Azure Kinect SDK’s recorder tool lists connected device serials.
• ZED / ZED mini: label on the camera body; the ZED Explorer tool shows the serial of the connected camera.
• GoPro: Settings → About → camera info on the device, and a printed serial inside the battery compartment.
• Fingo / other small hand-tracking cameras: check the underside label and the box — these shipped as dev kits and the box is often the only place the serial appears.

Gloves, EMG, and eye tracking

Xsens gloves, StretchSense gloves, the gForce armband, Tobii trackers, Ultrahaptics: the serial is on the device label, and usually also on the calibration or QC sheet that shipped with it. These are the items where a warranty claim actually matters, so photograph the label and keep the paperwork reference in the asset notes.

Wearables and health monitors

• Fitbit Sense: in the Fitbit app → tap your device → the device page lists the serial. On the watch itself: Settings → About → Device Info. There’s also a tiny serial on the back of the case, sometimes under the band — slide the band off to read it.
• Apple Watch: see Apple devices .
• Alphamed blood-pressure monitors: the label is in the battery compartment or on the underside of the unit. Consumer medical devices rarely show a serial in software, so photograph the label — for study equipment, the serial is what ties a reading to a specific unit if one drifts out of calibration.

Lab instruments (fNIRS, EEG, tDRT)

The Artinis PortaLite MKII, NIRSport2, and BrainVision LiveAmp all carry a serial on the unit label, and their acquisition software reports the connected device’s serial in its device or hardware-info panel. Record the serial of the amplifier, not the cap or the optodes — that’s the unit the vendor tracks.

Equipment on loan to the lab (like the tDRT system) still gets an asset record: log it with Ownership → Other and note the lender and the return date.

Everything else

3D printer, PS5, Cleanbox, network gear: the serial is on the rear or underside label, and consumer devices usually also show it in a settings menu (Settings → System → Console Information on the PS5, the Support screen on the Prusa’s LCD). Photograph the label; log the model and serial the same way as anything else.