How it works
From a Bluetooth signal on an asset to an alert in your operations team. The components of Ä¢¹½TV's asset tracking system and how they fit together.
The system at a glance
Tags on your assets broadcast over Bluetooth Low Energy. Phones and handhelds running Ä¢¹½TV Agent, or fixed Ä¢¹½TV Hubs, pick up those signals and forward them to the cloud, instantly turning your existing infrastructure into a network of Hotspots.
The Ä¢¹½TV Network authenticates every sighting, calculates position, and routes it to your systems in real time. Ä¢¹½TV Track turns that into a live map, intelligent rules, and instant alerts, giving your operations team complete visibility over everything that matters.
Where the data starts
Tag your assets to unlock physical data
Ä¢¹½TV Asset Tags are small BLE devices that are attached to assets or items to capture data. All Tags use NeoBeacon, Ä¢¹½TV's secure beacon format, communicating with Agents over Bluetooth Low Energy. Each carries a cryptographically signed identity, so every reading is verifiable.
Tags are available with different capabilities. Tracking-only Tags report position whenever they're in coverage. Sensing Tags add built-in condition monitoring, like temperature. Logging Tags can work offline, capturing timestamped sensor data and uploading the full record when they're back in range.
They are also available in different form factors, from disposable labels optimised for single use journeys, to reusable hard tags for assets that last years.
→ See the range of Asset Tags
Network Coverage
Existing devices as your primary Hotspots. Fixed Hubs for places without people.
Ä¢¹½TV Agent is software that runs on the devices your team already carries. Once installed, each device becomes a Hotspot, capturing signals from nearby Asset Tags as people move through the operation and forwarding them to the network. Coverage builds naturally from the routes your team already walks.
For areas that need continuous coverage but see little foot traffic, Ä¢¹½TV Hubs provide fixed Hotspot coverage without relying on anyone passing through.
→ Learn how Ä¢¹½TV Agent turns frontline devices into a tracking network
The fabric of the system
Authentication, routing, security and time. The platform layer that connects Tags, Hotspots and routes data.
Ä¢¹½TV Network is the platform that connects and manages Tags, Agents, Hotspots, and the cloud. It authenticates every Tag and Hotspot, synchronises time across the system, calculates positions from Hotspot reports, and routes data where it needs to go.
Security is built in at the foundation. Identity is cryptographic, and data is encrypted end-to-end between the Tag and the cloud. Hotspots handle data but can't read or modify it.
→ See more about Ä¢¹½TV Network
Where data becomes a decision
Live map, zones, rules, exceptions and the integrations your team already runs.
Ä¢¹½TV Track is the application your operations team works in. Every tagged asset appears on a live map with its current position, route history, and sensor readings. Zones define the places that matter: yards, depots, customer sites.
Rules do the watching. Geofence entry and exit, dwell time, return-to-base, scheduled returns, inactivity, condition thresholds, trip matching. When a rule is breached, an exception lands in the team's queue with the context needed to act on it.
Ä¢¹½TV Track also provides the APIs and integrations to feed your other existing systems.
Why Bluetooth tracking?
Bluetooth beacons have been used for asset tracking for over a decade. The radio has the right properties: years of battery life on a small cell, low cost per tag at scale and a radio already built into every modern phone, tablet and handheld scanner. What's changed is a convergence of shifts that together are moving Bluetooth tracking from specialist deployments to broad operational use.
The network is already at the frontline because BLE is built into the devices frontline teams already carry. Those devices can serve as the tracking network detecting Tags as people move through their normal work, without dedicated readers or fixed infrastructure at every point. Tags are available in new form factors and at new price points, from disposable labels for one-way shipments to micro tags for cost-sensitive tracking at scale. Condition monitoring is maturing from simple threshold alerts into continuous logged profiles that serve both operations and compliance. Regulatory frameworks like Digital Product Passports, alongside the rise of Physical AI in operations, are creating both the obligation and the opportunity to capture this data.
Our whitepaper covers the full picture: the anatomy of BLE Tags, how location is established, how networks are architected, how Bluetooth compares to the alternatives and where the technology is heading next.
Start tracking today
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Ä¢¹½TV is designed for Builders
Ä¢¹½TV provides secure Hotspot and Network infrastructure services, supporting development with off-the-shelf or custom & embedded Beacons while giving you full control over where your data lands.
Ä¢¹½TV integrates effortlessly with any cloud service. Whether it’s a dedicated data platform, your backend on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or any other infrastructure you choose, you remain in full control of your data, infrastructure, and business logic.
Resources
Video | EE Times
Bluetooth Tracking Agents Use Existing Hardware to Close Gaps in Asset Tracking
Ä¢¹½TV CEO Simon Ford joins EE Times to explain how Ä¢¹½TV Agent turns the devices your team already carries into a continuous tracking network.