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Mesh, BLE or RFID?

The three are often spoken of as rivals. They are better understood as three different questions: where is it now, who has it, and did it pass this point?

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Side by side.

Mesh positioningBLE beaconsRFID
The question it answersWhere in the building is it, right now?Which vehicle has it, and where was it left?Was it read here, and when?
On the itemA battery tagA battery beaconAn RFID label
On the siteAnchors and a gatewayA vehicle tracker with Bluetooth, or a listener in a yardReaders at doors and docks, handhelds, readers on vehicles
What you seeA moving position on a floor plan or in 3DThe item with its vehicle on the live mapA record of each read, kept as evidence
SuitsPeople, stock and equipment inside one buildingTrailers, generators and implements that travelStock, tools and returnable containers, item by item
InSight moduleInSight MeshInSight BLEInSight RFID, in early access

How to choose.

Start with the question your client actually asks. A hospital that cannot find a wheelchair wants a position, so it wants a mesh. A plant hire company that wants to know which van took which generator wants a beacon. A distributor that wants each crate recorded as it passes the dock door wants RFID.

Then look at where the thing lives. A mesh belongs to a building: what leaves the building leaves the mesh. A beacon travels with the item and is heard wherever a tracker or a listener is in range. A label is read only where a reader stands.

Many sites end up with more than one. A warehouse can run a mesh on the floor and beacons on the trailers in its yard, and all of it appears in one account.

On Trackerserver, all three are InSight.

InSight Mesh

Battery tags, located inside a building by a Wirepas mesh of Teltonika anchors and gateways.

InSight BLE

Teltonika EYE beacons and sensors on equipment, heard by the tracker in the vehicle that tows it.

InSight RFID

RFID labels read by fixed readers, handhelds and readers on vehicles. In its final testing, with early access on request.

Read on

What to trackWhat indoor tracking is used for: finding people and equipment, following stock through a building, watching restricted areas and keeping an eye on cold-room temperatures.Planning a projectWhat an indoor tracking project needs before it starts: floor plans, a decision on what to tag, Teltonika mesh tags, anchors and a gateway, and a survey of each floor.Offering itHow tracking, security and fleet businesses offer indoor tracking to their clients under their own brand, on the Trackerserver white-label platform with its InSight modules.

Ready to offer indoor tracking?

Describe the building and what has to be found in it. We reply with the technology that fits, the hardware it takes and the platform that shows it.

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