Logistic vehicle tracking
Integrate ELA Innovation location beacons into your logistics vehicle geolocation solutions.
Logistic vehicle tracking system, what is it?
Searching for logistics equipment on industrial sites represents a considerable loss of time for operators. It also generates significant additional costs for equipment purchase and maintenance, when equipment is lost or overhauls are not carried out on time.
To meet this need, many companies are equipping themselves with asset tracking solutions to track and inventory their machinery. Indeed, geolocation is one of 70% of corporate digitalization projects, with the aim of boosting productivity and performance at plants and logistics sites.
Connected geolocation solutions will create value by improving flow management, ensuring machine safety and automating previously manual tasks.
How does logistics vehicle tracking work?
Various technologies can be used to geolocate logistics equipment. The choice of one technology over another will depend on a number of criteria, such as the type of infrastructure required, the number and size of the equipment to be geolocated, the environment in which the solution is to be installed, the cost of the infrastructure and, last but not least, the level of accuracy required.
To geolocate logistics vehicles, ELA Innovation offers location beacons based on 2 different technologies: Wirepas Mesh and Bluetooth Low Energy.
This localization technology is based on a mesh network of fixed and mobile beacons. The tools to be geolocated are equipped with mobile beacons, while fixed beacons are positioned in buildings at regular intervals, creating a mesh.
Positioning information is calculated on the basis of the signal strength (RSSI) emitted by the mobile beacons, and transmitted via the mesh to the gateway. The Wirepas Positioning Engine then transforms the raw data into GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude), which can be visualized on a business platform. Depending on the density of fixed beacons in the network, location accuracy can be set from 5 to 10m, which is sufficient for locating medium-sized machines such as pallet trucks.
The equipment to be tracked will be equipped with BLE beacons that will emit at regular intervals an unique ID. These numbers will be picked up by nearby BLE receivers (e.g. smartphones, PCs, GPS boxes or even gateways). The information will then be transmitted to the client servers via the cloud or Ethernet network.
The end user will be able to consult data in real time on a business platform, and set alerts if necessary.
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Why integrate location-based beacons into your logistic vehicle tracking solution?
ELA Innovation’s location beacons are ideal for meeting the geolocation needs of logistics equipment for a number of reasons:
100% autonomous
Their battery-powered operation provides up to 20 years of autonomy, guaranteeing a competitive total cost of ownership.
Quick and easy installation
Extremely easy to install thanks to a range of mounting options (high-performance double-sided stickers or screw-on brackets), these sensors can be mounted on any type of surface and require no wiring.
Robust and compact
The industrial casing of these beacons has been designed for use in extreme conditions, resisting shock and vibration.
Real-time tracking
Whether Wirepas Mesh or BLE, it’s possible to track and locate equipment in real time, enabling analysis of its movements and easy retrieval thanks to the high precision offered by these technologies.
Which beacons do we recommend?
If you are an IoT solution provider and would like to integrate the geolocation of logistics vehicles into your offering, here are the products you need
, here are the products ELA Innovation that we recommend:
