Indoor Positioning & Indoor Tracking in Industrial Applications

Asset Tracking & Documentation of Process Steps

Product: infsoft Lead Time Tracking

Users can view the current location of individual goods, pallets, mesh boxes, or vehicles on a digital map at any time. In addition, the dwell time of tracked assets at particular locations and thus important process steps are seamlessly documented. The monitoring of lead times contributes significantly to optimizing the organization of all processes along the supply chain. Linking the tracking solution to an enterprise resource planning system ensures comprehensive asset management.

Use Cases

With a tracking solution, the position of industrial goods can be reliably determined and displayed on a digital map. In addition to reduced search times, optimal inventory management can be realized in this way. Along the process chain, the position of goods or load carriers and the required working time at the individual work stations can be determined at any time. On this basis, users can compare target and actual times and immediately identify any delays in the process. Not only goods but also vehicles such as forklifts, lift trucks, and tugger trains can be tracked on the industrial site. The use of Road Stud Locator Beacons enables seamless tracking of assets and vehicles even across outdoor areas.

The goods or containers to be tracked can also be equipped with a display medium. infsoft E-Ink Display Beacons can display information about the contents of the container or work instructions, for example. The display content can be managed via a connection to the ERP system or using infsoft’s software. Automated labeling updates can be triggered, for example, when a container leaves a specific area and is thus ready for the next work step.

To further facilitate the order pickers’ search for specific goods, beacons with integrated LED indicators can be attached to containers with individual parts. When approached, the lamp lights up automatically. A collection of environmental sensor data, such as temperature and humidity, can also complement the application.

Tracking of Load Carrier Circulation

Tracking and Digital Labeling of Containers in Logistics

Deployed Hardware

Individual goods, pallets, or wire mesh boxes are equipped with BLE asset tags or beacons with display medium (infsoft E-Ink Display Beacons). As infrastructure hardware, infsoft Locator Beacons are installed at regular intervals, and some gateways (infsoft Locator Node Dongles) are mounted on the site. The Locator Beacons receive the Bluetooth signals from the asset tags and send the data via a gateway to the infsoft LocAware platform^®.

Infrastructure Hardware

infsoft Locator Node Dongle

infsoft Locator Beacon

Tag Hardware

BLE tag

OR

infsoft E-Ink Display Beacon