Transforming Asset Visibility Across Manufacturing & Warehouse Operations
A large manufacturing organization managing 10,000+ assets validated BLE AoA RTLS to track assets in real time, locate specific assets faster, understand movement history, analyze dwell time, and improve visibility across production and warehouse environments.
The Cost of Poor Asset Visibility
Large manufacturing environments often manage thousands of physical assets across production, testing, warehouse, storage, and operational zones. Without real-time visibility, teams depend on manual search, operator knowledge, and fragmented records to locate assets and understand movement. The case study highlights the need to move beyond conventional asset management and create a reliable digital visibility layer across the facility.
Asset Search Delays
Teams spend time locating specific assets across large production and warehouse areas.
Limited Real-Time Visibility
Users lack a live view of where assets are currently located.
No Movement History
Asset movement across zones is difficult to trace manually.
Idle Asset Blind Spots
Assets that remain idle or stationary for long periods are hard to identify.
Fragmented Production & Warehouse Visibility
Production and warehouse visibility remains disconnected without a centralized system.
Manual Verification Effort
Employees must physically search, ask operators, and check multiple areas to verify asset location.
How Asset Visibility Works
1.
Asset
Physical assets are selected for tracking across production, warehouse, storage, and operational zones.
2.
BLE Tag
A BLE asset tag is attached to each selected asset, creating a digital identity for that physical item.
3.
BLE AoA Anchors
Strategically positioned BLE AoA anchors capture signals from tagged assets and support location estimation across the facility.
4.
RTLS Platform
The location data is processed and presented through the RTLS platform, creating a digital representation of the physical environment.
5.
Visualization & Analytics Dashboard
Users can view asset locations, search for assets, monitor zones, review movement history, analyze dwell time, and generate operational insights.
Key Features
Real-Time Asset Tracking
Search & Locate
Digital Facility Visibility
Geofencing
Dwell-Time Analytics
Historical Movement
Movement Playback
Heatmap Analytics
Tag & Battery Monitoring
Business Impact of Asset Visibility
| Challenge | Benefit |
|---|---|
Manual asset search
|
✓ Faster digital Search & Locatey |
|
Limited real-time visibility
|
✓ Live asset visibility |
|
No movement traceability
|
✓ Complete movement history |
|
Idle assets hard to identify
|
✓ Dwell-time analytics |
|
Physical zone monitoringy
|
✓ Digital geofencing |
|
Sustainability reporting
|
✓ Improved ESG performance |
Technologies
BLE AoA
Angle-based indoor positioning for real-time asset visibility
BLE Asset Tags
Digital identity for selected physical assets
BLE AoA Anchors
Infrastructure for capturing tag signals
RTLS Location Engine
Location estimation and processing layer
RTLS Platform
Centralized visualization, analytics, event monitoring, and reporting
Asset Visibility Dashboard
Success Metrics
Reduced Asset Search Time
Improved Asset Utilization
Better Operational Visibility
Real-Time Asset Intelligence
Results may vary depending on deployment scope, facility layout, asset type, tag placement, RF environment, and operational conditions.
Asset Visibility Across Industries
FAQs
The PoC evaluated whether BLE AoA based RTLS could provide reliable asset visibility in real manufacturing conditions across production and warehouse environments.
The solution was tested in production and warehouse environments, including areas with active equipment, testers, racks, shelves, storage zones, and enclosed containers.
The PoC demonstrated real-time location tracking, Search & Locate, geofencing, dwell-time analytics, historical movement, movement playback, heatmaps, event reporting, tag monitoring, and tracking in complex asset-placement scenarios.
Dwell-time analytics shows how long assets remain in different zones, helping identify idle assets, waiting periods, and possible process bottlenecks.
Yes. The case study describes a roadmap for expanding from selected critical assets and zones to additional production areas, warehouse areas, asset categories, multiple facility zones, and enterprise-scale visibility.
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