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BeWhere Enters Pallet Tracking Market
A Toronto company, BeWhere Inc., is taking aim at the mobile asset tracking market, including the North American pallet market, which it sees as a huge opportunity. Rather than using RFID technology, the company is relying on smartphone Bluetooth technology.
BeWhere attaches small battery-powered beacons, about the size of a business card and one centimetre thick, and which comes with an accelerometer, temperature sensor and light sensor, high-intensity LED and buzzer. Recording data such as temperature, motion, light and impact, it can then transmit this information to the user’s smartphone to communicate this information. The range of the device is 250 miles, with a default transmission rate of once per second. Data recording continues even when out of range, and is then transmitted once a connection is restored. Batteries are intended to last for two years. The LED and buzzer facilitate finding the beacon position in the warehouse.
Aside from its interest in goods in transport, the company is also targeting construction and utility industry assets, as well as paramedic services.
Equipment Highlight: A new use for Bluetooth – Asset Tracking
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Bringing home the beacons
Toronto-based tech start-up uses Bluetooth for tracking
A Toronto-based start-up is offering a new tracking technology with supply chain applications.
BeWhere Inc’s tech uses smartphone Bluetooth connectivity with small battery-powered beacons to keep tabs on mobile assets or goods in transit.
About the size of a business card and about a centimetre thick, each beacon is equipped with an accelerometer, temperature sensor, light sensor, high-intensity LED and buzzer. They record data such as temperature, motion, light and impact and transmit this to the user’s smart phone in real time, using a low-energy Bluetooth modem.
