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Real-time location tracking of valuable assets & people
Enhance your workflow productivity with intelligent data capture solutions that provide real-time insights and analytics, offering visibility across your entire operations. Gain immediate access to critical information about your assets, inventory, and personnel through our extensive range of location technologies, including RFID and real-time tracking using UWB and Bluetooth tags.
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Real-time location systems (RTLS) empower organisations to accurately and quickly track assets, people, and equipment. By utilising technologies such as Ultra-wideband (UWB), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), organisations can achieve new levels of efficiency, safety, and insight.
With precise knowledge of the location of assets, staff, or equipment at any given moment, you can significantly reduce the time wasted searching for items, improve workflows, and eliminate bottlenecks, ensuring that resources are always in the right place at the right time.
RTLS data capture generates valuable information that can be utilised in analytical applications, such as Zebra Motionworks. This platform offers real insights into asset tracking, material movements, and even monitors production lines and workforce activities in a centralised, real-time environment.
Tracking Features
Location Tracking Technologies
Ultra-wide Band (UWB) Technology
Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is specifically developed for applications that necessitate accurate, precise, and high-update-rate real-time location tracking. UWB works over WIFI to provide distinct advantages in real-time location systems (RTLS), featuring tags with remarkably long battery life.
Ultra Wideband (UWB) products offer a leading platform that facilitates accurate visibility solutions for assets and personnel where accuracy and reliability are essential.
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Technology
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons offer precise tracking for indoor environments. They are easy to configure and deploy, enabling automatic tracking of resources and assets with real-time location data. By utilising low-energy technology, these beacons improve location accuracy in dense settings and are compatible with a variety of Android and iOS devices that support Bluetooth Low Energy. While BLE beacons can work with third-party solutions, they are specifically optimised for Zebra’s MotionWorks™ location solutions.
Zebra Motionworks Platform
Sense, tag and track what is essential to your operations with the Motion Works location solution from Zebra Technologies. Built on the Savanna platform, the Motionworks system utilises the edge data from Zebra Hardware, Tags, fixed scanners and RFID technologies to analyse and digitise your operations. Gain real insight into asset tracking, material movements and even track your production lines and workforce in a centralised platform in real-time. The tracking potential for Motionworks is limitless and utilises a range of tracking technologies (Barcode, RFID, RTLS), combining and optimising the best of each to feed data onto the Motionworks platform, providing actionable insight into your operations.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the pros and cons of each tracking technology?
There are some scenarios and applications where one tracking technology has a general advantage over the others.
Ultra Wide Beam (UWB) – This technology is optimal for high-accuracy and high-value real-time tracking applications, such as in medical devices, manufacturing, sports, and security or defence scenarios. UWB offers high accuracy within a range of 10-30 cm and experiences low interference, making it ideal for Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS).
However, its disadvantages include high infrastructure and technical costs, as well as a reliance on shorter-lived tag batteries.
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) – A tagging technology that provides room-level accuracy of 1 to 3 meters, making it suitable for real-time indoor tracking of non-critical assets with low to medium precision. One advantage of these tags is their compatibility with smartphones, eliminating the need for extensive infrastructure investments. However, they can be susceptible to interference and still rely on batteries that need to be replaced periodically.
Radio Frequency Technology (RFID) – A lower cost option that can be used over a short range, utilising readers, portals and conveyor bulk reading to manage low-cost inventory items. If used with passive tags and labels, they can be relatively low cost but still require infrastructure set-up for bulk reading and are not ideal for RTL purposes due to their short range and low refresh rate.
Which technology is considered the most accurate?
UWB uses short radio pulses across a wide frequency spectrum, allowing precise distance calculations with accuracy down to 10-30 cm. This is ideal for advanced manufacturing such as automobiles.
Can the technologies be combined?
You can often combine different tracking technologies to enhance their effectiveness. For example, RFID can be used for inventory management, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) for tracking items at the room or zone level, and UWB (Ultra-Wideband) for tracking critical assets. This layered approach helps optimise costs and reduce the failure rate. A strong option for integrating tracking technologies is the Zebra Motionworks platform, which offers data analytics to meet all your tracking needs.