Bluetooth Asset Tracking

Unlock more value in your IoT asset tracking solution with Bluetooth GPS tracking devices. Experience the power of dual functionality with devices that combine GPS tracking with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) capabilities, allowing for both precise location tracking and communication with nearby BLE tags, sensors, or accessories.

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What is Bluetooth (BLE) asset tracking?

BLE is a wireless communication technology, designed for short-range data exchange with minimal energy consumption. This technology is often used for tracking assets in small, confined environments where power efficiency and cost-effectiveness are key considerations.

How does BLE Asset Tracking Work?

BLE asset tracking operates through a network of BLE devices, including beacons, sensors, and receivers. Beacons are small BLE tags that broadcast signals to nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices. These signals are picked up by sensors and receivers, allowing for the tracking of an asset’s location and environmental conditions in real time. Generally, BLE technology is used for indoor tracking purposes, as these BLE devices need to be in close proximity to a gateway or other Bluetooth-enabled devices to transmit location data.

Consumer products such as Apple AirTags and Bluetooth tiles utilize BLE technology, commonly for tracking personal items. However, the application of such BLE tags is very limited in a commercial setting.

Key Features of our BLE Asset Trackers

Key Features

Digital Matter’s Bluetooth asset tracking solutions provide seamless visibility for assets moving between indoor and outdoor environments. Our advanced devices combine GPS tracking and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, enabling precise location tracking while communicating with nearby BLE tags, sensors, and accessories.

Designed for versatility, these solutions support applications such as inventory management, door open/close monitoring, condition monitoring, fleet management, and exception reporting.

With global connectivity across multiple cellular networks, including 2G, 4G, 5G, and LTE-M/NB-IoT, we ensure reliable, worldwide asset tracking for businesses of all sizes.

Other key features of our BLE tracking devices include:

Rugged design: The devices feature ultra-rugged and waterproof housings, designed to withstand harsh environments, impact, fine dust, and brief submersion.
Compatibility: Our solutions support industry-standard BLE formats and are compatible with third-party Bluetooth tags, sensors, and accessories, offering a plug-and-play solution.
Customization: The devices allow for efficient management of Bluetooth asset tracking parameters, including location reporting frequency, movement-based events, and accelerometer settings.
Long battery life: Our “deploy once” battery life ensures enduring tracking capabilities, promoting convenience and efficiency in your asset tracking efforts.
Over-the-air updates: Device settings and firmware can be updated remotely, allowing for continuous enhancement and adaptability.
Integration capabilities: Our BLE solutions can be seamlessly integrated into existing platforms, minimizing complexities while maximizing impact.

BLE Asset Tracking Applications

Discover how BLE tracking can help with asset tracking in indoor settings and personal tracking in urban environments.

Inventory, Cargo, and Asset Management

Bluetooth Location tracking tags can be used to manage stock, inventory, pallets, tools, small pieces of equipment, and more.

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Healthcare

Track medical equipment, ensuring that vital devices are always accounted for, easily accessible, and properly maintained within healthcare facilities.

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Fleet Management

Leverage Bluetooth sensors for driver ID, fuel monitoring, axle load, tire pressure, and temperature to achieve a robust and wire-free fleet management solution.

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Retail

Manage inventory with real-time updates, helping to prevent stockouts and overstocking.

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Exception Reporting

Receive alerts when, and at what locations, high-value assets or dangerous goods are mishandled during transit with impact, vibration, or high G-force detection.

Learn about Bluetooth® Gateway Integration

Smart Buildings

BLE technology in smart buildings facilitates indoor navigation, helping occupants find their way around large complexes. It also tracks assets like furniture and equipment, ensuring optimal utilization.

Learn about BLE in Smart Buildings

Door Open/Close Monitoring

Integrate with a variety of Bluetooth sensors to enable door open/close monitoring for tamper detection, reporting, and/or compliance.

Learn More About Monitoring Door Open/Close

Industrial Applications

Track tools and equipment within a small site, reducing downtime, improving efficiency, and ensuring that all tools are used and maintained properly.

Learn More About GPS Tool Tracking

Condition Monitoring

Install Bluetooth sensors in temperature-and humidity-sensitive environments—such as cold chain monitoring, package tracking, and broader logistics operations—to monitor conditions in real time and maintain safety and compliance.

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BLE Asset Tracking Use Cases

Optimizing Spoil Tracking with IoT

From infrastructure to rail and building, John Holland projects generally involve the movement of tens of thousands of metric tonnes of spoil throughout the lifetime of each project.

Any excess dirt, soil, or rubble that is contaminated or unfit to be re-used is defined as spoil/waste. Spoil/waste must be removed from the worksite and disposed of correctly. The correct disposal of spoil/waste is heavily regulated within jurisdictions John Holland operates to ensure these materials (sometimes contaminated) are not illegally disposed of. The resource-intensive and human error-prone process of spoil tracking prompted John Holland to develop SpoilTRAC, an IoT system designed specifically for the unique requirements of John Holland projects.

Utilizing the Remora and Oyster battery-powered GPS tracking devices, the SpoilTRAC system tracks spoil movement from extraction to disposal efficiently and accurately in real-time. The development of SpoilTRAC has provided John Holland with a time-effective and cost-efficient means to record tracking data for spoil.

“The real-time confirmation of spoil type, amount, and disposal location means we no longer have to wait 1-4 months waiting for information from our subcontractors to see if we have managed our spoil/waste appropriately,” says Tham Gunasekera, Senior Environmental Advisor (EA), John Holland. “Instant notification of an incorrect spoil disposal incident can also save between $1600 – $4000 per single dump truck load per incident.”

Learn more about smart IoT tracking for construction and environmental management.

Critical Aircraft Part Tracking and Condition Monitoring with IoT

As a result of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-value aircraft parts was forced to leave critical assets unattended for several weeks in an uncontrolled environment. Due to high humidity levels, the critical aircraft parts corroded and were unusable, resulting in a substantial (hundreds of millions of dollars) financial loss for the company and its aviation partners.

To improve visibility in their supply chain, in 2021 the manufacturer selected Digital Matter’s Oyster Edge battery-powered Indoor/Outdoor GPS asset tracking and Bluetooth Gateway to track and monitor the location and condition of thousands of their critical aircraft assets as they move globally through production, storage, and delivery.

By providing essential visibility of critical high-value assets in transit, the Oyster Edge allowed the manufacturer to authenticate the location of goods at any time, track speed of movement and arrival times, monitor storage conditions, and streamline the problematic movement of goods. Over time, this will save the manufacturer hundreds of millions of dollars in lost or damaged assets.

Learn more about how BLE trackers can enable complete visibility over your entire supply chain.

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