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A warehouse worker going about their tasks with a rugged handheld device holstered on their belt, wireless signal arcs passing between the device and a tracking tag on a nearby roll cage.

Returnable transport item tracking: the three costs hiding in one line item

Somewhere in most operations budgets there is a figure that gets renewed every year without much argument. It might be called replacement stock,...

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A cutaway service van fitted with shelves of high-value tools and equipment

Field service tool tracking: your van is a stockroom you can't count

The stockroom that drives away Every field-service business runs a stockroom. The difference is that this one has wheels and leaves the yard every...

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A shipment crate travelling between an origin site and a destination site, with the route clear at both ends but faded and uncertain across the middle, illustrating the visibility gap in inter-site shipping.

Inter-site shipping tracking: schedule on what arrived, not what should have

When your operation depends on parts and equipment moving between sites, everything runs to a schedule. It tells the crews where to be, sets the...

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The Ambient IoT Tipping Point: Turning Frontline Devices Into a Tracking Network

Blecon CEO Simon Ford recently joined Steve Statler on theMr. Beacon Ambient IoT podcast to discuss how Bluetooth Low Energy is reshaping asset...

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Why Bluetooth Smart Labels Change the Shape of Asset Tracking

Asset tracking is often discussed in terms of range, infrastructure and cost. Those things matter, but they are not the whole story.

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Ambient IoT in Action: Tracking Assets Without Building New Infrastructure

In a recent session for the Ambient IoT Alliance, we shared how Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) is able to support Ambient IoT use cases and what is...

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Blecon Launches Blecon Agent, Transforming Zebra Technologies’ Frontline Devices into an Autonomous Bluetooth Tracking Network

New software solution for Zebra devices instantly converts its global frontline device ecosystem into a continuous tracking network for BLE sensors...

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Zero Infrastructure Bluetooth Tracking: Turning Your Frontline into a Visibility Network

The most significant barrier to true supply chain visibility is the capital cost of covering the entire network.

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Eliminating Supply Chain Black Holes with Frontline Agents & BLE Tracking

For years, supply chain and logistics operators have accepted a persistent "black hole": the moment assets leave the warehouse, visibility vanishes....

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