Independent guidance before you commit to RFID, RTLS or mobile robots.Buying RFID, RTLS or robots? Get an independent view before you sign.
We help you choose the technology and supplier, prove it in a pilot before you scale, and rescue rollouts that have stalled. We don't sell hardware, so our guidance stays independent.
Written proposal with the price after the call. Fixed-scope engagements from £3k.
You work directly with our specialists (two decades in RTLS and RFID, on both the supplier and the buyer side).
Where are you starting from?
Independent guidance before you buy
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Organisations our specialists have delivered for
Accenture, AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, DHL, Deloitte, GE HealthCare, JLR, Kuehne+Nagel, NHS, Pfizer, Rolls-Royce, Thales, Triumph
Sectors we serve
We don't sell hardware. Paid only by you, never by suppliers.
Your operational problem isn’t always an RFID problem.
It might need Auto-ID, RFID, RTLS, UWB, BLE, Wi-Fi, GPS, computer vision, IoT sensors or AGV-native locating, or a hybrid of several.
Most specialists lead with one technology, because one technology is what they sell. We start with the job that has to get done, the building it happens in, and the systems you already run (then score the options on accuracy, total cost of ownership and integration effort) the same basis as our independent RTLS guidance and industrial RFID strategy work.
We don’t start with a radio.
Before you talk to suppliers, see what an RTLS project really costs. Choosing between suppliers? See how independent supplier selection works. Have a quote already? Ask for a free second opinion on your quote.
- We don't sell hardware. Paid only by you, never by suppliers.
- We work for you, not for the technology providers.
Plenty of firms say “independent”. The test is who still gets paid when the answer is don’t buy it. Specialist vs integrator: the difference · How we stay independent
Six services, plus rescue. Each has an agreed scope and ends with a decision.
Start at the step you actually need. You can start at Discover, go straight to Select if you already know the job, or call us when a programme has stalled. Every step has a named output and a price agreed before it begins, and none of them commits you to the next.
They map onto our four-stage method: Discover, Evaluate and Select make up Design; Validate is Validate; Oversee is Deploy; Scale is Optimise. Rescue can start at any stage.
Discover
Operational visibility assessment
Where time, stock and equipment actually go, observed on your floor, not inferred from a survey. Ends with a prioritised list of jobs worth solving.
Visibility assessmentEvaluate
Technology options & architecture
Auto-ID versus RTLS versus vision, scored against your accuracy, environment and TCO constraints. Options and trade-offs, with the reasoning shown.
Technology evaluationSelect
Independent RFP & shortlist
A requirement written so suppliers can be compared like for like, then quote review, reference checks and a defensible shortlist.
RFP & supplier selectionValidate
Pilot design & success criteria
What the pilot must prove, measured how, passing at what threshold, agreed before anything is installed, so the result is not arguable afterwards.
Pilot success criteriaOversee
Implementation assurance & PMO
Independent oversight of someone else’s deployment: design held to, acceptance tested, data quality verified, sign-off earned rather than assumed.
Implementation assuranceScale
Retainer & multi-site governance
Standards, reference design and a review cadence so site three costs a fraction of site one, and stays accurate after we leave.
Managed & retained guidanceRescue
Stalled pilot or programme recovery
Late, over budget, or live but not trusted. We triage it independently (what was actually promised, what the data says, what it would take to recover) and tell you plainly whether it is worth recovering. No supplier of ours is implicated in the answer, because we have none.
Programme rescueAll services and fee bands · How we work & what it costs · Buyer’s guides
Every locating family, judged on merit.
We hold no partner tier, reseller agreement or certification with any supplier in this list. Where a technology is wrong for your job we say so, including the one you arrived asking for.
Start from the job you need done.
The use case decides the technology, never the other way round. These are the jobs we are asked to solve most often.
Briefs for the people in the room.
CFO, COO, IT/OT, plant, procurement, EHS, clinical and CISO: same independent guidance, framed for each decision.
What well-run locating programmes measure, and the services behind them.
Every programme is scoped against the KPIs that matter to your operation. We baseline them before the pilot, so the result is yours to verify rather than a brochure range.
Retail, warehousing and manufacturing: errors, write-offs and reconciliation effort.
Warehouses: bulk RFID reads against manual barcode counting.
Retail and distribution: replenishment and shelf visibility.
Hospitals, factories and airports: medical equipment, forklifts, carts and tooling.
Automotive and manufacturing: totes, parts and subassemblies.
The questions finance will ask: total cost, cash saved, purchases avoided and how you will prove it.
One programme. Every stakeholder gets a straight answer.
A tracking programme touches the boardroom, the budget, the integration layer and the floor. Pick the lens that fits you.
Outcomes and de-risked delivery
The business case, the payback and the proof that this ships, not another stalled pilot. Board-ready numbers, gate-governed risk.
Cost, payback and procurement you can defend
Indicative fees up front. Independent selection. A repeatable design pack for the next site.
Accuracy, architecture and clean integration
The right radio for the physics, an architecture that scales, and integration into your WMS, ERP, EMR or MES that actually holds.
Tools your team will actually use
Workflows that fit how the floor really works: faster searches, fewer missed steps, safety that helps rather than nags.
Worked examples, by sector.
Locating engagements our specialists led in earlier roles, by sector: challenge, approach and results. Client names withheld under NDA. We model your own numbers when you engage.
Independent. Both sides of the table.
TRACIO is an independent guidance. Our specialists have worked inside the major RFID and RTLS suppliers, so you get someone on your side who knows how suppliers price, pitch and deliver, and which questions to ask before you sign.
For specialist delivery you contract engineers and integrators directly, and we check their work on your side. We work alongside integrators on bids, or as the buyer’s independent specialist.
From business case to commissioning.
From the executive business case to the quarterly performance audit twelve months after go-live.
Business case & roadmap
Discovery, use-case prioritisation, KPI tree construction, payback modelling, and multi-year roadmap aligned to corporate strategy.
Independent evaluation
Comparative analysis across UWB, BLE 5.x AoA, RAIN RFID, active RFID, ultrasound, Wi-Fi RTT, SLAM, and vision: scored against your environment, accuracy budget, and TCO.
RFP, sourcing & contract review
RFP design with structured evaluation matrices, supplier shortlisting, demo orchestration, commercial fairness benchmarking, and MSA / SOW review pre-sign.
Solution & site design
RF predictive modelling, anchor and reader placement, ISA-95 / Purdue Model network design, OT/IT segmentation aligned to IEC 62443, integration mapping across MES, EMR, WMS, CMMS, ServiceNow.
PoC & pilot delivery
Hypothesis-driven proofs-of-concept and in-situ pilots with measurable go / no-go criteria. Pilots that mirror production load, not the marketing one.
Programme management
Multi-site, multi-region rollout governance with clear gating, PMO reporting, change management, UAT scripting, and as-built documentation packs.
Data, BI & digital twin
Event stream processing, data lake integration, Power BI / Tableau / Qlik dashboarding, and digital-twin enablement for simulation and prediction.
Training & change management
Role-based curricula for operators, biomed engineers, line leads, and admins. Super-user programmes and stakeholder engagement that drives sustained adoption.
Audit & project recovery
Quarterly performance audits, dispute resolution, expert-witness engagements, and rapid triage of stalled or failing rollouts.
The systems we integrate with and the standards we design to.
Independent on the radio, fluent in the enterprise systems your operation already runs.
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Engagements scoped against the numbers your board reviews.
Every project is anchored to a measurable target: OEE points, inventory accuracy, bed turn time, dock dwell minutes, or annual cost out.
Find any medical equipment.
BLE 5.x AoA and UWB designed around clinical workflow and Joint Commission compliance: mobile medical equipment, telemetry, ED bed state, hand-hygiene attestation. Integrated with Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and your CMMS.
Healthcare use casesWIP visibility.
Item-level Passive RFID at cells and dock doors, UWB tool control on the line, IATF 16949-compliant traceability, MES integration with SAP MII, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Siemens Opcenter, or your bespoke platform.
Manufacturing use casesDock-door reads.
Passive RFID at every dock door, BLE on trailers, yard truck location, and integration with Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Körber, SAP EWM, or your TMS for live inbound / outbound reconciliation and perfect-order lift.
Logistics use casesStalled rollout. Triaged in days.
Assessment, recovery plan, dedicated PMO or guidance to your team, and unified stakeholder communication.
Project recoveryHow an RFID or RTLS pilot works
- Rental pilot equipment, so you test on your own site before you buy hardware.
- Agreed scope: the area, items and length are written down before it starts.
- Success measures agreed with you up front.
- A written go/no-go at the end: scale, change course or stop.
A four-stage, gate-governed delivery model.
↻ Gate-governed and iterative, every cycle we loop optimise back into design.
Discovery & site survey
Stakeholder workshops, KPI tree, current-state assessment, use-case prioritisation, and predictive RF modelling.
PoC & pilot
Hypothesis-driven validation against measurable go / no-go criteria. Pilots that mirror production load.
Rollout & integration
Programme management, commissioning, MES / EMR / WMS integration, UAT, as-built documentation.
Launch support & audit
Launch support and a post-go-live performance review, drift analysis, optimisation cycles.
Watch a tagged asset move. See where it spends time.
This is what location tracking actually looks like in your operation. Switch the environment (warehouse, hospital, plant, construction). Add 50 more assets. Slide accuracy from basic to precision. The red zones are bottlenecks you can fix.
A tagged asset (forklift, medical equipment, worker) moving through your facility in real time.
Cool zones = passed through quickly. Red zones = bottlenecks where time and money are lost.
Every move feeds your existing systems (WMS, ERP, EMR) so dashboards and decisions update automatically.
Simulated data: real systems produce the same kind of event stream. Open the full visualiser with architecture notes
Beyond X & Y coordinates.
Most RTLS suppliers stop at a moving dot on a map. TRACIO treats position events as raw telemetry, then engineers the analytics, rules, and integration layer that converts them into the OEE uplift, throughput improvement, or compliance signal your CFO actually measures.
Telemetry → structured event streams
TDoA, AoA, RSSI, and dwell events normalised across suppliers and time-aligned with SAP, Oracle, Epic, Cerner, Manhattan, Blue Yonder, ServiceNow, and bespoke MES platforms.
Operational KPIs mapped to your P&L
OEE, first-pass yield, takt time, bed turn, length-of-stay, dock dwell, perfect-order rate, SLA compliance, mapped to the metrics your board already reviews.
Closed-loop automation & alerting
Rules engines triggering ServiceNow incidents, CMMS work orders, nurse-call escalations, andon, and MES interlocks. Location data driving production, not just observation.
Digital twin & predictive analytics
Spatial event data structured for digital-twin platforms (Azure Digital Twins, Siemens Xcelerator, NVIDIA Omniverse). Simulation, what-if modelling, and ML-driven prediction on real movement history.
From a coordinate to a decision you already own.
A position is an x, a y and a timestamp. We normalise the feed and attach rules you already use:
dwell limits, zone interlocks, excursion alerts. Predictive models, if used, run in your cloud on your data.
Example model outputs on simulated data. See how we build the AI layer
Programmes that paid back, and why.
Five engagements our specialists led in earlier roles. Results as reported by each client at the time. We model your own numbers before you commit.
Engagements delivered by our specialists in prior roles, in earlier roles. Client names withheld under NDA. A reference call can be arranged after mutual qualification.
Transparent, scoped fees: agreed before we start.
Fees agreed in writing after scoping wherever the scope allows. Where the work is ongoing, you buy guidance time at a published day rate, in blocks agreed up front. You see the model and the number before we start, so finance can budget with confidence.
Scoped per project
Clear scope: discovery, supplier selection, pilot design. Your fee is agreed in writing before we start.
Day-rate & retainer
Ongoing guidance and programme governance. Guidance time in pre-agreed blocks at £1,200/day.
SOW against agreed KPIs
Guidance-through-live delivery scoped against agreed KPIs, so fees track the result, not the hours.
Every engagement is scoped per project and priced in writing before work starts: £3k to £30k per project, or £1,200 a day in the UK; rental pilot equipment is available. Fees exclude hardware, licences and travel. See the regional fee ranges
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