GENERAL QUESTIONS
Locera is a simple, yet powerful global hub for location and identification data. Access extensive location intelligence to improve how you operate. Locate and track everything from critical assets to forklifts to people. Integrate and bring your business, MES, and SCADA systems to life with precise real-time location or point-in-time RFID data supplied by Locera’s powerful API and Webhooks.
There are many ways to use Locera, however, the provided location intelligence is primarily used to support three critical categories.
- Asset Tracking
- Tools
- Equipment
- Materials
- Finished goods
- Operations Tracking
- Work in progress (WIP)
- Material management
- Production tracking by area
- Process optimization
- Sequencing
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Provides real-time feedback to Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Integration via API and Webhooks
- Audit trail
- Reduce downtime associated with
- Misplaced materials
- Misplaced critical assets
You can track anything that a transponder or RFID tag can be attached to. Anything. If you need to know where something is at anytime, Locera can track it and provide real-time location data.
Examples include product bins, materials, pallets, forklifts, personnel, tools and finished goods.
Tracking and managing your assets with RTLS fully automates your location needs. RTLS transponders automatically are read, registered, and updated via the Locera edge gateway.
You will need a combination of hardware and software to fully automate your facility. Total cost is contingent on multiple factors including the number of items you wish to track, location accuracy required, and facility size.
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Installation is almost as simple as using Locera itself. First, we work with you to understand your automation, scale, and accuracy needs. From there, our team will scope out the necessary hardware/software to create your system. Once approved, we install and you get to work!
You can get started with manual asset tracking today, while semi-automated and fully automated systems can be installed in as little as 3 days in a small to medium sized application.
SaaS models can be quickly deployed, easily accessible, highly scalable, and always up to date. Utilizing Amazon Web Services, Locera is designed to support modern IT standards and remove the headache of maintaining computing infrastructure. A truly hassle-free solution that offers a secure, performant, and resilient global platform providing data confidentiality and integrity. Take advantage of the cloud to access your data or make changes to everything from anywhere.
RFID QUESTIONS
Active RFID tags have a transmitter and their own power source (typically a battery). The power source is used to run the microchip’s circuitry and to broadcast a signal to a reader (the way a cell phone transmits signals to a base station). Passive tags have no battery.
Active RFID tags have a transmitter and their own power source (typically a battery). The power source is used to run the microchip’s circuitry and to broadcast a signal to a reader (the way a cell phone transmits signals to a base station).
Passive RFID systems use tags with no internal power source and instead are powered by the electromagnetic energy transmitted from an RFID reader. Passive RFID tags are used for applications such as access control, file tracking, race timing, supply chain management, smart labels, and more.
There are 2 ways to track and manage your assets with RFID.
- Semi-Automated
- Scan barcodes and or QR codes with your smartphone or other scanning devices.
- Automated
- RFID readers automatically register and update in Locera.
RTLS QUESTIONS
Our customers use locating data in a number of different ways that include real-time tracking of forklift traffic, product bins, pallets, critical assets, tools and materials. Just to name a few.
Batteries can last between 3-12 months depending on transponder type and signal frequency.
The minimum numbers of gateways that can be used for an RTLS system is 4.
It is recommended to have the gateways hung from the ceiling or walls.