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Doing More with Less: What Your Forklifts Aren't Telling You   You don't need more forklifts to move more pallets. You just need to know what your current forklifts are actually doing.   Ask how efficient a forklift fleet really is, and you'll usually get an educated guess: • Utilization "feels" fine. • Routes are "probably" okay. • Congestion "happens sometimes."   Continuous position data replaces that guesswork with facts:   🚜 Idle time per forklift and shift (measured, not estimated) 🗺️ Planned vs. actual routes (making empty runs and detours visible) 🚦 Traffic hotspots (spotted before they turn into bottlenecks) ⏱️ Dwell times at pick and drop zones (where queues quietly eat throughput)   And the best part: no beacons, no anchors, no site survey required.   That's why we built Forklift Analytics together with Slamcore. Camera-based SLAM positioning mounts directly on the forklift and feeds precise location data into our DeepHub® spatial intelligence platform. You get immediate visibility into utilization, heatmaps, route analysis, and safety risks from day one.   Higher fleet output comes from better decisions, not more hardware.   How much of your fleet planning still relies on gut feel?   👇 Link to the solution page in the comments.   #Logistics #MaterialHandling #RTLS #SupplyChain #Forklift

Tech Tuesday: A forklift is not a dot.   Most tracking systems reduce assets to a single point in space: X, Y, Z. It is a clean abstraction that fails the moment safety depends on it.   A forklift has a footprint, not just a coordinate. Even trickier: its geometry changes dynamically depending on the load on its fork. If a geofence only knows the center point, it triggers either too early (costing throughput) or too late (causing collisions).   In omlox, a trackable is more than a static position: it carries the actual, dynamic geometry of the object. When shape becomes part of the entity, geofencing and collision detection run on real dimensions. Safety zones turn from generous buffers into precise boundaries.   We see this in production today. Together with Waveye, SYNAOS, and Schaeffler, imaging radar detects untagged people and robots (>99% accuracy in <0.5 seconds, zero visual data), while UWB tracks tagged forklifts and AMRs. DeepHub unifies both into one coordinate system, feeding dynamic safety zones and cutting false positives.   This will only grow in importance. UWB radar is shipping today, Wi-Fi sensing has its standard in IEEE 802.11bf, and ISAC is on the 6G roadmap. As signals detect untagged objects directly, those detections need a home: trackables with shape in a shared spatial model.   The dot was always a simplification. Safety requires the whole object.   #Flowcate #omlox #DeepHub #RTLS #WirelessSensing #IndustrialSafety

Doing More with Less: Tracking any box or item without high hardware costs   You don't need expensive active tags on every single pallet to get full visibility across your operations. Indirect tracking solves this efficiently.   When you combine a mobile handheld scanner with an indoor positioning system (for example, based on BLE, UWB, or Wi-Fi), a quick barcode scan automatically assigns location data to passive containers.   The impact of combining smart infrastructure with standard processes: 📦Turn untagged assets into a part of a digitized workflow. ⏱️Save hundreds of search hours annually, as shown in MANN+HUMMEL's logistics setup*. 💡Achieve high operational output with minimal deployment costs. Maximizing efficiency comes down to smart integration, not tagging every single item.   How are you handling asset tracking in your facility?   #DoingMoreWithLess #Logistics #IndirectTracking #RTLS #Flowcate #SupplyChain #omlox   *Watch the case study presentation on YouTube: omlox - the open locating standard: MANN+HUMMEL reference installation

Tech Tuesday: What humanoid robots can learn from location tracking   Humanoid robots and AMRs are moving into warehouses, factory floors, hospitals, and many other areas. How confidently they move depends on one thing: knowing exactly where they are, at all times.   No single positioning technology delivers that everywhere. UWB, BLE, Wi-Fi, GPS, RFID, and vision each work well in some environments and poorly in others. A robot might get a precise UWB fix indoors while at the same time receiving a low-accuracy GPS update. So the real question isn't "where am I?" but "which of these signals do I trust right now?"   That's exactly what the DeepHub rule engine solves. Instead of relying on one technology, it evaluates every incoming location update in real time and picks the most significant one based on configurable rules. Each rule combines a condition and a priority. A simple example: use the precise UWB position as long as it's less than 10 seconds old, otherwise fall back to GPS if its accuracy is better than 10 meters. Rules can be built on properties like technology type, accuracy, the age of the fix, speed, floor, or zone, so the best available source is defined by the situation rather than by a fixed hierarchy.   The result is a robot that switches positioning sources automatically and seamlessly as it moves through changing environments. We contributed this capability to the omlox standard, so multi-technology tracking becomes an open, interoperable foundation instead of a proprietary feature.   And where robots operate close to people, the engine can run several technologies in parallel for redundant tracking. That means reliability exactly where it matters most.   Robots make the headlines. The positioning layer underneath is what has to work. #Flowcate #omlox #Robotics #DeepHub #RTLS

🤝 Welcome to the DeepHub Alliance, PDi Digital GmbH! We're excited to welcome PDi Digital to our partner ecosystem! As a pioneer in Electronic Shelf Label technology, PDi Digital has taken digital labels from classical retail into a paperless industrial world. What makes this partnership so powerful: We share the goal of process digitalization and automation. Sepioo labels support indoor and outdoor positioning based on various locating technologies. In combination with DeepHub, the premier omlox middleware, integrating these labels with any locating system (or even multiple in parallel) becomes a breeze. While the labels display the information, the locating layer ensures assets are found and booked automatically in real-time along the entire logistics process -digital labels and locating in perfect harmony. We're looking forward to a strong collaboration! #Flowcate #omlox #DeepHub #sepioo #PDiDigital #RTLS

The new space race is no longer just about reaching orbit. It's a race for the world's next generation of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure. 🛰️   And here is the reality the industry often underestimates: no single technology wins this. From space-first constellations (like SpaceX or Xona) to Bluetooth-to-satellite connectivity (Hubble Network) and terrestrial VHF bridging the indoor-outdoor gap (our partner Wheere), different architectures are all converging on the same destination.   In practice, a single industrial site already relies on a mix: 👁️ Vision systems following moving forklifts. 🏷️ RTLS locating assets indoors. 🌐 GNSS the moment those assets roll outdoors.   Every technology has its sweet spot and its absolute blind spot. There is no silver bullet in locating. There never was.   This is exactly why we invented the omlox hub and built DeepHub®. Our mission is to give all of these signals - from space, buildings, robots, and sensors - a common spatial language, turning them into a single, trusted source of truth that an operation can actually act on.   The winners of the next decade won't be the companies with the strongest signal. They'll be the ecosystems that make every signal interoperable by default.   That's the bet we've made since day one, and it's why we're building the open operational layer for it now rather than waiting for the space race to settle.   #SpaceTech #PNT #RTLS #omlox #DeepHub #PhysicalAI #Industry40 #NewSpace   omlox is part of PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI), the largest association for industrial automation.

Warehouse automation is accelerating.Warehouse automation is accelerating. So are the safety risks ⚠️ More AGVs. More AMRs. More autonomous systems sharing the floor with manual forklifts and workers. The more assets in motion, the higher the stakes. Most facilities are somewhere in the middle of that transition. Not fully automated. Not fully manual. Everything in between 🏭 That's actually where the risk is highest. Your worker is tracked with BLE. Your forklift uses vision-based SLAM. Your AGV runs on LiDAR. Three assets. Three technologies. Three separate data streams. None of them talking to each other. Collision avoidance only works when every moving asset shares the same location layer. A worker wearing a BLE tag and an AGV navigating via LiDAR need to exist in the same spatial awareness system — or the warning never fires.📍 This is why collision avoidance was built into the omlox open locating standard from day one. Not as an add-on. As a core requirement. The standard exists. Most operations just haven't activated it yet👇 See what it looks like when they do. #WarehouseSafety #Intralogistics #Forklifts #CollisionAvoidance #omlox #RTLS #DeepHub #Flowcate

Europe's #1 forklift fleet management platform just joined the DeepHub Alliance 🔥 ForkOn connects proprietary telematics hardware with a powerful cloud platform to give operations teams full visibility into their forklift fleets - utilization, safety, energy, costs, and maintenance across any brand. Manufacturer-independent, data-first, and already running on 10,000+ forklifts at companies like Tesla, Migros, Deutsche Bahn and Hermes. Integrated with DeepHub, ForkOn can now ingest location data from any RTLS technology through a single API. No matter what locating hardware is on the floor, ForkOn gets the data seamlessly ⚡️ One fleet management platform. Any location technology. Full visibility. Welcome to the Alliance, ForkOn GmbH 🤝 #FleetManagement #Intralogistics #RTLS #LocationIntelligence #omlox #Industry40 #IIoT #Flowcate #ForkOn #DeepHub

Your WMS manages your warehouse. But it can't see it 👁️ It knows what should be on that shelf. What was scanned at the dock this morning. What the system was told, when someone told it. But where things actually are right now? That's invisible. The dashboard looks complete. It's not. It's only showing you what someone confirmed 🔴 Here's what that looks like in practice: - Materials arrive at a workstation. The system doesn't know yet. - Stock sits longer than planned. No alert fires. - A shipment leaves. The WMS is still waiting for someone to confirm it. None of this is a WMS problem. It does exactly what it was designed to do. It's a visibility problem 🕶️ Real-time location data gives it eyes. Every trigger runs through the same principle: a tagged asset crosses a geofence, and SAP acts. No one has to tell it. - Goods receipt posts the moment a pallet hits the dock - Kanban flips when a bin enters the replenishment zone - Yard management checks in a trailer as it clears the gate No manual steps. No lag. No blind spots ✅ It gets smarter when the WMS can finally see what's going on. This isn't theoretical. We mapped it out in practice together with SWAN, one of Europe's leading SAP EWM specialists — showing exactly what this integration looks like on the floor. Blueprint is in the article below. 👇 #WMS #RTLS #LocationIntelligence #WarehouseAutomation #SAP #SAPLogistics #omlox #Flowcate

🎤 Logistics Future Lab, Linz. It delivered 🇦🇹 Last week, Stephan Zangerl took the stage at the Logistik Future Lab and Austrian Logistics Day, teaming up with Philipp Miklautsch from our partner CANCOM Austria. They showed a live RFID deployment in manufacturing and exactly how Auto-ID and location technologies make shop floors smarter, faster and more automated 🏭 Turns out the world is small and it meets in Linz. Great to reconnect with Sabrina Hinteregger and Alexander Bernhard from our partner SWAN and Sascha Kaczmarek from MotionMiners GmbH, and great to meet new faces like Fabian Altenberg from engomo. Many thanks to the Verein Netzwerk Logistik - VNL Österreich for an outstanding event. We'll be back. 👋 #LogisticsFutureLab #Logistics #RFID #AutoID #Manufacturing #LocationTechnology #Omlox #Linz