GPS follows the vehicle. RFID records the items.
Trackerserver is a GPS tracking platform that tracking businesses run under their own brand. InSight RFID, now in early access, adds what no tracker is fitted to: stock, tools, returnable containers and equipment, each carrying an RFID label that is read wherever it passes a reader.
InSight RFID is in early access · a module of the Trackerserver GPS tracking platform
Three things to know about RFID tracking.
A label is not a tracker
An RFID label has no battery, no SIM card and no GPS. It cannot report where it is. It answers when a reader asks, and only then.
A read is a moment
What the platform holds is a record: this label, read by this reader, at this time. Between one reader and the next, RFID says nothing.
That is its strength
A label is small and thin enough to go on a single carton, crate or tool. Items can be recorded one by one where fitting a battery to each would make no sense.
InSight RFID is the module for things that carry a label and no battery: stock, tools, returnable containers and equipment. The labels are read by fixed readers on doors and docks, by handheld scanners and by readers fitted to vehicles.
A read is kept as evidence that an item was seen, with its place and its time. Receiving, counts and dispatch are compared with their documents. Whatever is unexpected becomes an exception, and a person reviews it. The module is in final testing.
The platform
A GPS tracking platform, before anything else.
RFID is not where Trackerserver starts. It starts with vehicles and assets on a live map, journeys replayed stop by stop, geofences, alerts, dashcams, fuel and reports, for more than 4 800 models of tracker.
The InSight modules are what make that platform complete. They follow the things a GPS tracker is never fitted to, and they open from the same menu, in the same account, under the same brand: yours.
InSight completes the picture.
Three modules, for three kinds of thing that never carry a GPS tracker.
InSight Mesh
Battery tags on people, stock and equipment, placed on a floor plan by a mesh of Teltonika anchors and gateways. For where things are inside a building.
InSight BLE
A small beacon on a generator, a trailer or a piece of plant, picked up by the tracker of the vehicle it goes out with. For which vehicle has it, and where it was left.
InSight RFID
A label on each item, read at doors and docks, by handhelds and on vehicles. For a record of each time an item was seen. In early access.
Asked first.
Is an RFID tag a GPS tracker?
No. A GPS tracker works out its own position and sends it over a mobile network. An RFID label does neither: it is read when it comes within range of a reader. The two answer different questions, which is why a complete platform has both.
Can RFID show where an item is right now?
It shows where and when the item was last read. For a position that moves across a floor plan, the tool is a battery tag on an indoor mesh, which on this platform is InSight Mesh.
Is InSight RFID available now?
Not as a standard module yet. It is in final testing, and early access can be asked for through the enquiry form.
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Tell us what your client wants recorded item by item, and where those items pass. We answer with where InSight RFID stands, whether early access suits the job, and what the rest of the platform would add.