Presented herein are techniques to geographically track and monitor an unpowered device. A method includes during a powered off state of the device, and upon detecting a predetermined event, enabling a radio frequency monitoring tag affixed to the device to collect, via radio frequency reception, information indicative of a geographical location of the radio frequency monitoring tag, storing the information indicative of the geographical location of the radio frequency monitoring tag in memory of the radio frequency monitoring tag, and upon powering up of the device, sending by the device, to a remote server, the information indicative of the detected geographical location of the radio frequency monitoring tag.