Returnable transport items (RTIs)

Every RTI, every cycle, every site

Live visibility of every RTI across your sites and your customers'. Cages, totes, kegs, pallets and IBCs tracked through every cycle. Multi-year tags at fleet scale, with onboard sensors on condition-sensitive units.

 

RTI tracking is fragmented across the fleet

Barcodes and gate-scan RFID give visibility at fixed read points: when an RTI left your site and when it returned, with nothing in between. Cellular trackers fill the gap with live position, but per-unit cost rules them out at fleet scale, so they end up on the highest-value units only. Different parts of the fleet sit in different systems, with no view of what's at a customer's site right now.

Manual reconciliation against rows of returnable assets. The fragmented workflow Blecon replaces.
 

One live view across the RTI fleet

One live view across the RTI fleet, your sites and your customers'. Blecon Track unifies what today sits across multiple systems. Multi-year tags at fleet scale on cages, totes, kegs and pallets. Multi-sensor tags on IBCs and condition-sensitive units. Blecon Agent runs on the phones, tablets and handhelds your team already carries, turning every frontline device into a tracking agent. Coverage moves with your team. Rules in Track surface RTIs overstaying at customer sites, units overdue on cycle and gaps against the register.

 

 

 

 

Tag signals captured automatically as Blecon Agent devices pass within range. The network is your teams existing handhelds.

What you'd deploy

Tags on returnables, Agent on your team's existing devices, rules in Track.

For high-volume RTI fleets where location and basic condition data are what you need at fleet-scale economics. Peel-and-stick deployment on cages, totes, kegs and pallets. Multi-year service life, designed for cost per unit at scale.
 
For IBCs, food-grade bulk containers and pharma transport totes where temperature, humidity, motion or pressure data matter alongside location. Multi-year tag with onboard sensors. Logs data offline when out of coverage at a customer site and syncs the cycle when back in range.
 
Runs on the frontline devices your team already carries. Drivers, warehouse staff and dispatch teams turn into tracking agents as they work. Every delivery, pickup and gate movement is a coverage event. Coverage moves with the fleet, into trucks, across yards and through every cycle.
 
RTIs overstaying at customer sites surface for follow-up. Units overdue on cycle trigger alerts before they're written off. Register gaps reconcile automatically as RTIs are tagged and tracked through cycles. Condition exceptions on sensitive RTIs route to the right team in time to act.
 

 

SH01-BCN micro Tag applied to a returnable asset at the depot.
 

Where this fits

RTI operations take many shapes. Where Blecon fits:

General RTI fleets
Cages, totes, kegs, pallets and crates moving in volume across multiple sites. SH01-BCN Micro Tags at fleet scale, with frontline devices providing coverage as your team works. Live location and dwell tracking, fleet-wide.
 
 
Condition-sensitive RTIs
IBCs of food-grade liquids, pharma transport totes and regulated bulk containers where temperature, humidity, motion or pressure data matter alongside location. L02S-BCN Classic Tags with onboard sensors, logging through customer sites and out-of-coverage routes.
 
Customer-facing RTIs
Beverage kegs, hire-style returnables and B2B distribution containers that spend time at customer sites. Dwell visibility, cycle reporting and chase alerts on units overstaying. Either Tag, depending on what's inside.
 



Returnable assets cycling through depots, sites and customer locations.

What changes in your operation

Mornings start with a live view of every RTI across your operation and out at customer sites. Overstaying units surface with days-since-last-seen counts, not phone calls. Condition exceptions on sensitive RTIs route to the right team in time to act. Cycle reports build automatically: dwell by customer, time-on-cycle by RTI type, register accuracy week over week.

 

Live fleet view in Blecon Track. Position, dwell and overdue alerts in one place.

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