The happy workplace is always the home of the productive workplace, filled with a lot of talent around. Millennials being part of this productive workplace are transitioning from process-centric interface to consumer centric self-service interfaces. One of the functional areas which is involved in this eco-system is IT support. At Thoughtworks, we realized that this transformation to self-service based economy for IT hardwares could be achieved by “Perimeter based indoor tracking”. From a technology perspective “BLE based IOT infrastructure”, covered by a creamy layer of “AI” forms the enterprise sustainable solution. In this talk , I will detail the “BLE based Indoor perimeter ecosystem” which helps us to track and maintain IT assets thus providing a 99% data accuracy and ~60-80% of manpower cost savings.

1. Geofencing BLE Beacons
Real-time enterprise asset tracking and
self-service
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2. FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
“Blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological worlds”

3. Context-aware
recommendation
Self - Service
On-Demand
information
MILLENNIALS
SMART
WORKPLACE
Intelligence &
Optimization

4. Asset assignment
Stock taking
Compliance
Auditing
Asset usage
Controlled
environment
Data accuracy

5. “ REAL TIME INTELLIGENCE
and TRACKING ”

6. GPS
“Outdoor Real time
location system”
“Few meters
accuracy”

7. GIPS
“Indoor Real time
location system”
“<0.5 meter
accuracy”

8. “ REAL TIME INTELLIGENCE
and TRACKING ”

9. Geofencing BLE Beacons

10. GEO FENCING
ASSET
TAGGING

11. 1. Data Analytics
2. Machine learning Algorithms for triangulation
3. Push notifications for business rules
Gateway
Satellite
Nodes
Assets
1. Aggregates information from clients
2. Health-check / updates of nodes
3. Maps assets to the closest satellite node
1. Listens to BLE signal (Poly-Beacon support)
2. Computes moving average every 60’s (Edge computing)
3. Filter noise bluetooth signals from other devices
1. Continuously broadcast packets via IBeacon protocol
2. Sends unique identifier
BLE GEOFENCE PLATFORM

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FOR BUSINESS - IT HELPED US WITH……..
● Active tracking - Provided 99.95% real time
location accuracy
● Automated assignment - ~ 90x cost saving
spent on tracking and assignment of assets
● Push notifications - Alerts, when a asset
leaves controlled environment
● Auditing / Compliance - Helped us to achieve
close to 98% compliance
● Self-Service - 70% reduction in IT support
ticket lifecycle
● Low-cost solution - ~US$15 for 5-7 year
maintenance per asset
Asset assignment
Stock taking
Compliance
Auditing
Asset usage
Controlled
environment
Data accuracy

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@Hospitals @Warehouse @Factory
floor
“ GIPS - RTLS ”

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QUICK RECAP……...
● Fourth industrial revolutions with AI, IOT, Quantum computing ...
● Millinieals need for self-service and on-demand information
● Operational challenges with asset tracking - Need for real time data
● GIPS with BLE beacons
● BLE Geofence platform
● Business benefits with active tracking, automated assignments, push
notifications, self-service

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Sathyan Sethumadhavan
satnair@thoughtworks.com
www.geekcubo.com/agileworld
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