Input for consolidated solution providing one view. Smart near real-time tracking with high level of location accuracy. Important step in Digital Transformation. Combine and use existing infrastructure like scanners and detection loops Industry grade solution with a good track record in similar cases. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) sensors and gateways . Flexibility of adding more sensor types (e.g. temperature). Ease of scaling up and ease of maintainability. Cloud based IoT Platform with open architecture.

1. Smart Indoor Logistics
Connected Trolleys
Robbrecht van Amerongen
Conclusion Connect
0641010286 / Robbrecht@conclusion.nl

2. Challenge
Location Tracking Solution
for Nomadic Assets in the
Warehouses.
RFH 2

3. Nomadic Assets

4. Context Indoor Tracking
RFH
Budget
Accuracy
Indoor & Outdoor tracking
Robust & Less Disruption
Minimal Business Impact
Large number
Dense
Large location
Interference
Long battery life

5. Best Practices
Indoor / Outdoor Combine best
of breed
Accuracy vs Battery
Combination of
Data sources
Basis for digital
innovation
Grow together
with your business

6. Business case
Cost savings Value creation
Lost assets
Correct errors
Optimize traffic
Trace defect
Asset stock optimize
Detect fraud / theft
Pay per use model
New business models
Trace cold chain
Announce arrival
Automatic scanning

8. Practical cases
25.000 active tags
Battery 5-7 years
Currently adding 70.000 tags
Casing is custom made (optimized
for mounting time / Water proof /
temp 130 degrees)

9. Preconditions Ideal Solution for Track & Trace
• Input for consolidated solution providing one view.
• Smart near real-time tracking with high level of location accuracy.
• Important step in Digital Transformation.
• Combine and use existing infrastructure like scanners and detection loops
• Industry grade solution with a good track record in similar cases.
• Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) sensors and gateways .
• Flexibility of adding more sensor types (e.g. temperature).
• Ease of scaling up and ease of maintainability.
• Cloud based IoT Platform with open architecture.
RFH 9

10. Solution Advice
Combine solutions for both cost effective and accuracy. Use multiple technologies
Build on an open and extensible platform.
This will achieve optimum accuracy in places where you need precise tracking
The localization algorithm can be optimized in the future without updating trolleys
Platform is able integrate with existing planning / logistics applications (and new ones)
RFH 10

11. Smart Device Robust trough :
Mesh, LORA and BLE (no single point of failure)