Scans get forgotten.
A handheld or RFID scan after every move works until someone forgets. Then the system says left and the machine stands right.
Q · A
How does Rotion track equipment on a large yard without gateways?
Rotion fixes a BLE tag to each machine, attachment or element and installs an app on the phones your staff already carry. Inside the site, the app picks up nearby tags in the background and places each sighting with the phone’s GPS and motion sensors. Sightings from several phones merge into one position per tag, so the yard map stays current without fixed readers.
- No gateways or readers outdoors
- Staff do nothing, phones scan in the background
- One-week pilot on your own yard
01The problem
The yard moves faster than the registration.
A machine goes from inbound to assembly, wash and inspection, and sometimes back as a parts donor. The record does not always follow.
Someone searches all day.
Staff walk or cycle the yard to find a machine for the next order. Deliveries wait while they look.
Fixed readers stop at the hall.
Gateways, gates and UWB anchors work indoors. On hectares of open yard they get expensive fast.
02What searching costs
Searching costs more than it looks.
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03Closed loop
Everyone who moves a machine.
Machines move between zones several times a week. Every phone that passes adds a sighting, so nobody has to remember to scan.
- 01Inbound
Links each new tag to the machine number when the machine arrives, or imports the list in one go.
- 02Yard staff
Walk their usual rounds. Their phones pick up the tags nearby in the background.
- 03Assembly and service
Search by machine number and walk straight to it. The radar on the phone covers the last metres.
- 04Planning
Sees where each machine stands and how often it moved, before it plans the next job.
- 05Shipping
Finds the machine for an order without a search round, also from a link in the app they already use.
- 06Other sites
Run on the same tags, app and map, with one overview across every site.
Field results from operators running Rotion across pools, retail and industry.
28%
S.01fewer assets lost
9%
S.02smaller fleet needed
575,310
S.03assets tracked
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04How it works
Tag it, walk past it, find it.
Nobody changes how they work. The phones in their pockets do the rounds.
- 01
Tag
A BLE tag goes on each machine and is linked to its number by a scan or a list import.
- 02
Walk past
Inside the site, staff phones pick up nearby tags in the background. Outside the site they stop.
- 03
Position
Sightings from several phones and moments merge into one position per tag.
- 04
Find
Search by machine number, walk to the spot and let the radar point out the last metres.
05Platform
What your yard runs on.
Last seen per machine
Zone, position and time of the last sighting for every tagged item.
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Every move on record
A passport per machine with each move, its work orders and documents.
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Unusual moves
Autopilot flags machines that move far more often than the rest, or stay out of sight.
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Your ERP and field apps
Positions and moves flow to your ERP and the field apps your staff use.
Read more06Autopilot
It notices first.
Autopilot watches every scan in your loop, flags what is going wrong, proposes the fix with its reasoning, and acts once you approve.
How Autopilot worksExcavator GR-2291 has moved five times this month.
Why
Machines in the inbound zone move about once a month. GR-2291 served as a parts donor twice and went back to inbound each time, and its pre-delivery inspection is still open.
Proposes
Flag GR-2291 to planning and propose the inspection before its next move.
ApproveEditconfidence 92%
Moves this month5
Sample data07Pilot
One week on your own yard.
You see it work in your daily operation before you decide. We agree the criteria up front, so the result is a clear go or no-go.
100 tags
On machines in one busy zone of your yard.
Your phones
The app on the phones of the people who work there.
One week
Normal operations, no change to how anyone works.
You
- Link tags to machine numbers in a list
- Keep working as usual
Rotion
- Map and zones of your site
- Start-up on the yard
- Daily follow-up and a final report
Go or no-go on
- Time to find a machine
- Share of machines seen in the last 24 hours
- Share of each shift the phones report
The pilot fee is credited to the first year.
Where to go next.
Q.01Do our staff need to do anything?
No. The app runs in the background on the phones they already carry and shows only a small indicator. Anyone who needs a machine searches by its number, uses the radar for the last metres, or opens it from a link in the app they already use.
Q.02How accurate is the position?
In a first field test, positions landed within 3 to 5 metres. How close it gets depends on the signal conditions: an open yard does better than a hall full of steel. Close enough to walk to the right row, and the radar takes you to the machine. We measure it on your own yard during the pilot.
Q.03Does it track our people?
No. The map shows tag sightings only, never worker names or the routes people walk. The app scans only inside the site and stops when a phone leaves it.
Q.04What about indoor halls?
Inside a hall, GPS is weaker. We place a few BLE tags like the ones on your machines as fixed anchors, which gives each zone in the hall a position. They are cheap and take minutes to put up.
Q.05Which yards does this fit?
Sites where your own staff walk the yard every day with company phones: OEM assembly and maintenance yards, equipment rental depots, precast and steel stockyards and port cargo yards. It fits less well where only rotating drivers pass, because the map needs regular passers-by.
Q.06Which tags do we need?
Rotion reads any BLE tag, including tags you already own. We can supply tags with replaceable batteries, so you buy them once and only change the battery.
Q.07Does it drain phone batteries?
Battery use is low. The app scans only inside the site and at a set interval, which we tune with you during the pilot.
Q.08How do we start?
With a one-week pilot on your own yard: 100 tags, the app on the phones of the people who work there, and go or no-go criteria we agree up front. The pilot fee is credited to the first year.
