We have experienced GPS, RFID, Ble and Artags to track assets – just one actually worked

Over the past 6 months, we have evaluated multiple tracking techniques for portable assets and non -advanced assets: construction equipment, medical rents, tools, shipping containers, and more. Objective: Building a system that reliably tells you:

• Where is this element now?
• When was the last time seen?
• What is the cost of each origin to do so on a large scale?

We tested:

• GPS cellular (Landairsea, Samsara)
• RFID negative/active (zebra, foreign)
• Track me (tiles, one key, etc.)
• Apple Aartags + software layer

Only one approach gave us:

• Tracking high -precision negative
• The minimum work
• Site updates that can be predicted in the wilderness
• The total cost is $ 4 per month

🔴 GPS-thirsty and fragile operational devices

lessCopyEdit[ Asset ]
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[ GPS Module ]
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[ LTE Modem ]---[ Carrier Network ]---[ Cloud Platform ]
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[ Battery ]

What is good in:

• Tracking real time when you have a cell signal
• Micro-ups (every 10-60 years)

Failure situations in the field:

• Battery exhaust → dead device in 7-30 days
• Inner/urban/urban lock → GPS lock
• SIM → ~ 3 % failure rate during preparation
• Technology forgets to impose or facilitate installation fees

It is measured in the field:

• AVG (non -hardware): 18 minutes
• Avg Labor Revisit in the year: 5.7X
• The time of the site’s transition at home: > 1 hour or failed Ping

GPS works for energy -powered fleets. It collapses severely for negative assets.

Annual TCO per device: ~ $ 400 ($ 150 for devices + $ 240 data + $ 50)

🟠 RFID – Wonderful warehouse, not the field

lessCopyEdit[ RFID Tag ]---(Passive)---[ RFID Reader ]
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                        [ Backend DB ]

Useful to:

• Inventory control in the fixed chokePoints points
• Wholesale wiping in very organized environments

Restrictions:

• Don’t follow real – just “seen in the x” portal “
• It requires infrastructure at each decision point
• 0 outdoor coverage, in crossing, on work sites
• Readers are expensive and fragile (EM overlap vulnerable)

Cost collapse:

• Negative signs: 0.12 – 0.80 dollars

• The reader’s infrastructure/site: $ 2,500 – $ 10,000

• Integration of public expenditures: high

Unless you control the entire environment, RFID creates the vision gaps that you cannot close.

Annual Tco (real publishing): $ 8,000 – 40 thousand dollars/site

Trackers Ble – “Track” which is usually not that

cssCopyEdit[ BLE Beacon ] --x--> [ Needs Someone Running App ]

Examples tested:

• Professional tiles
• Milukuki is one key
• Chipolo Business Beta

The basic issue: They depend on the ownership applications that operate in the background – No real networkOnly marketing.

Network density (urban tests):

• Tiles: 2 updates/week/assets in SF
• One key: 0 updates outside Milwoki’s work sites
• Battery life: ~ 12 months (CR2032 replaceable)

Main registration:

If no one runs the application, the device is invisible. In practice, this means ~ 99 %+ dead areas.

There is no way to manage widely. There is no geography. No asset panel. Only a few voices are meaningless, if you are lucky.

Tco: ~ 30 dollars to $ 60 a year (still is very high for something barely working)

lessCopyEdit[ AirTag ]---(BLE)---[ Any iPhone Nearby ]
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              [ Apple Find My Mesh ]
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                 [ Programmatic Layer ]
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                   [ AirPinpoint Dashboard ]

Main technical advantages:

• Blade lighthouse: ~ 800 mm seconds (adaptive)
• U1 chip + Trinity Blind improves spatial accuracy
• Global negative network: 2.2B+ iOS devices Replace encrypted updates
• Battery: 2-4 years on CR2032
• Range: We noticed ~ 0.2-2.3 mile delivery distance in the real world in cities

Test results:

• Urban Cumin Ping: <8 minutes
• Suburb: ~ 12-45 minutes
• Dip internal site accuracy: ~ 10-15m a radius circle
• Publishing time: <60 seconds Each origin
• No sim, no charging courses, no field composition

This is the only Ble system with actual network reliability at the country level.

Aartag comprehensive CR2032 Battle brand comparison

Based on a wide experimental test of CR2032 batteries under conditions similar to the operation of Aartag, here are how to perform different brands:

*It was transferred from the accelerating test conditions to the real approximate months, based on

Test methodology: All batteries are tested with a cracked 80μa base load (about 16x Aitag, the typical AIRTAG sleeping stream) with pulse loads of the highest patrol similar patrol. Tests were normalized to calculate simple differences in test equipment.

🧮 Compare the real cost (per 100 assets, a year)

✅ Final notes

Aartags on the iOS device is not enough to use business. They lack:

But when it is associated with the third party platform, it is solved (such as AirPinpoint), it can be said The highest level of level, the lowest tracking layer is available For non -advanced assets.

If you are trying to track equipment, rents, forklines, pumps, dolls, vehicles, containers, or anything that moves but has no power – This is the stack to overcome it.