Independent advice on tracking programmes. No hardware to sell.
We help industrial, healthcare and logistics teams decide what technology to deploy for physical visibility and which suppliers to trust, then hold the programme to it. We don't sell hardware, so our advice stays independent. Judgement you can put in front of a board.
That depth is why we can tell you, with evidence, what will and will not work in your environment. We have sat on the supplier side of the table, so we know how the pitch is built. On your engagement, we only ever sit on yours.
Why TRACIO exists and how the independence holds.
Most locating programmes fail not because the radio cannot deliver, but because the buying team never had an accurate second opinion in the room.
The default route (ask one or two suppliers for a quote) gets you a deck tuned to their hardware strengths, and silence on the weaknesses that show up after go-live.
TRACIO is that missing voice: someone who has worked inside the suppliers, knows how they price and pitch, and represents your side of the table from the first site survey to the post-launch audit.
Independence is a commercial design, not a slogan. We do not have a software platform that has to win the deal.
We sell our time and our work: strategy, supplier selection, RF site survey, architecture, programme delivery, integration, installation, rental equipment, managed services, and the operational audit that catches drift twelve months after go-live.
What you get: a comparative shortlist that survives procurement, an architecture that scales past the pilot, and a programme plan the board can defend.
When delivery needs specialist engineering, you contract the integrators or specialists directly, and we help you specify and check their work.
The result is what you wanted in the first place: an independent, evidence-based path from a real operating problem to a system that pays back.
Why each stakeholder trusts the advice
Our advisers have spent two decades in both buyer and supplier seats, so the advice holds up whoever you are in the room.
Twenty years of shipped programmes
Our advisers’ two decades of RTLS, RFID and IoT delivery, with case studies to show.
Genuinely independent
Only what fits the use case and the budget.
Supplier-side depth
Hands-on across nine locating technologies and the major platforms, including the failure modes.
Tested where work happens
Advice proven on real floors, not only in architecture diagrams.
Depth that comes from shipping it, over and over again.
From early active-tag RTLS pilots in the mid-2000s, through Passive RFID at scale, BLE 5.x direction-finding, UWB FiRa standardisation, and SLAM-driven AMR fleets, our advisers have been there, building, breaking and rebuilding it all. TRACIO offers that experience independently.
Early RTLS & active RFID
Commercialisation of a leading active RFID and UWB platform. Early healthcare and military pilots; first-generation enterprise deployments.
Passive RFID at scale
Passive UHF / RAIN RFID rollouts across retail, manufacturing and aerospace: item-level accuracy, dock-door reads, tool control, FOD prevention.
BLE, UWB & IIoT convergence
BLE 5.x direction finding, UWB precision RTLS, LoRaWAN and SigFox LPWAN, ISA-95 integration, middleware modernisation, EMR and MES integration in healthcare and Tier-1 manufacturing.
Digital twin & sensor fusion
Digital-twin integration, multi-modal sensor fusion, cybersecurity by design (IEC 62443), clinical deployments, and the first wave of SLAM-based infrastructure-free positioning.
AGV/AMR orchestration & AI
VDA 5050-compliant multi-supplier fleet management for AGV and AMR, onboard SLAM and visual-positioning SLAM integration, ML-driven prediction layers on top of real-time location data, defence and critical infrastructure deployments.
Independent advisory
Hardware-agnostic, independent, outcome-driven. Built for enterprises selecting and deploying location intelligence across EMEA, APAC and the Americas.
The stacks and suppliers we actually know, by name, not brochure.
Two decades of working for, with, and against the major Auto-ID, RTLS, Passive RFID, BLE, UWB, LPWAN, computer-vision and SLAM platforms. We know the strengths, the quirks, the road-map gaps, and the commercial levers.
Reader & tag ecosystem
Impinj, Zebra, Honeywell, Alien, NXP, Smartrac, Avery Dennison, HID, Mojix: reader and inlay selection benchmarked against your environment, not supplier claims.
Precision positioning
Ubisense, Quuppa, Sewio, Pozyx, Eliko, Inpixon / CXApp, Kontakt.io, AiRISTA Flow, CenTrak, Stanley Healthcare / Aeroscout, Sonitor: full FiRa and Bluetooth SIG awareness.
Infrastructure-free positioning
Onboard SLAM and visual-positioning platforms; AGV/AMR suppliers MiR, Otto Motors, Locus, Geek+, Seegrid, Fetch (Zebra), 6 River Systems; VDA 5050 fleet orchestration.
Long-range, low-power
Semtech LoRa, The Things Industries, MachineQ / Comcast, Helium, Sigfox / UnaBiz, NB-IoT and LTE-M from Quectel, u-blox, Sierra Wireless.
Location software
Zebra Savanna, Cisco Spaces, Microsoft Azure IoT, AWS IoT, GE Predix legacy, Software AG Cumulocity, PTC ThingWorx, Siemens MindSphere / Insights Hub.
Enterprise integration
SAP S/4HANA + EWM, Oracle Fusion, ServiceNow IRM/HAM, Epic, Cerner Oracle Health, Meditech, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Siemens Opcenter, Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Körber.
From a one-line pilot to a global multi-site rollout.
Simple use cases
One-line PoCs, single-zone deployments, lab feasibility, hand-held inventory cycle counts, single dock-door RFID reads. Fast-start engagements that prove the technology before the budget grows.
Mid-complexity programmes
Single-site deployments across multiple use cases, integrated with one or two enterprise systems, with phased rollouts and adoption tracking. The bread-and-butter of RTLS programme work.
Mission-critical, multi-site
Global multi-site rollouts, regulatory environments (HIPAA, IEC 62443, 21 CFR Part 11, AS9100D), multi-supplier architectures, ML-driven analytics layers, digital-twin integration, and continuous performance governance.
What your suppliers will not put in the proposal.
The RTLS and RFID market is full of hardware suppliers and integrators with allegiances. TRACIO has neither. Recommendation, architecture and rollout plan are driven by your outcomes, not by a partner programme.
True independence
We don't sell hardware or take commissions from vendors.
Technical + commercial
Solution architecture, hardware specification, channel strategy and contract review: one team carrying buyer, supplier and delivery perspectives.
Outcome-driven
If we cannot articulate the ROI in your numbers, we will not recommend the deployment. Quantified business cases, every time.
We have sat on the supplier side of the table.
Our advisers spent years inside RFID and RTLS companies: sales, pre-sales and delivery.
That means we know how these solutions get positioned, where a quote quietly hides cost, which “standard” capabilities are really paid add-ons, and how pilots get scoped to impress a buyer rather than to prove a business case.
We bring that insider perspective to your side of the table: what to watch for, and the questions to ask before you commit budget or sign.
Teams, practices and every service we sell.
One independent firm. Core programme teams cover the full lifecycle. Specialised practices bring deep domain delivery when the job needs it. No hardware desk. No reseller channel.
Core programme teams
The teams buyers hire for scoping, build, install, rescue and live operations.
Advisory & consulting
Use-case scoping, architecture, independent shortlists, RFP, TCO and board packs. We work for you, not for the technology providers.
Platform build & integration
Strategy plus delivery as one accountable team: event streams into WMS, ERP, MES, EMR. Source transferred to you.
Installation & PMO
RF survey, anchor/reader design, install, UAT and go-live: RAIN RFID, UWB, BLE and hybrid stacks.
Programme rescue
Stalled pilots and drifting live systems. Diagnose, keep what works, relaunch around operational outcomes.
Managed services
Monitoring, accuracy drift, optimisation and hypercare so the programme stays accurate after go-live.
Training & enablement
Independent curricula for buyers, operators and architects, so your team can run it after we leave.
Specialised practices
Domain practices that plug into the core teams when the programme needs regulatory, twin, OT-security or LPWAN depth.
Digital twin practice
Operationally useful twins on trustworthy locating feeds: simulation and what-if, not a vanity 3D model.
Cold-chain & pharma practice
Temperature, location and chain-of-custody: DSCSA, EU FMD, GDP, 21 CFR Part 11.
OT & IoT cybersecurity practice
IEC 62443, zone & conduit design, and OT-aware monitoring for locating infrastructure.
LoRaWAN practice
When long-range low-power fits the job, and when cellular, BLE or RFID is the better answer.
Full services map
Every service line on one page, same independence policy across all of them.
An independent consultancy.
TRACIO is an independent consultancy for RTLS, RFID, IoT and AMR/AGV programmes. Our advisers know locating programmes from the supplier side and from the customer side, from the business case and supplier selection to delivery and live operation. Where a programme needs more hands, specialist engineers join under our direction, on the same independence and confidentiality terms.
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Supplier facts
- TRACIO Limited, registered in England and Wales. Company number 17236113.
- Registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): ZC261443.
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- We work with clients worldwide, on site and remotely.