Independent RTLS, RFID & IoT consulting.
Choosing the right location and identification technology — and the right vendor — is a high-stakes, expensive decision. TRACIO is an independent consultancy that helps you get it right across every technology: RTLS, RFID, industrial IoT, GPS, and robotics. We do not sell hardware or a platform, so the advice is yours alone — from the first business case to a working, integrated system. UK and Europe, in English, German, and French.
Most RTLS advice comes from someone selling something.
The market is full of capable vendors — each recommending their own technology. An independent consultant changes the question from "which product do we buy" to "what does the business actually need."
Vendor advice is built-in biased
A UWB vendor recommends UWB; an RFID vendor recommends RFID. Each is right about their own kit and silent on where it is the wrong fit. You need someone whose only stake is your outcome.
The wrong choice is expensive
Pick the wrong technology or vendor and the cost shows up later as rip-and-replace, accuracy that never meets the use case, integration debt, and a business case that quietly fails to land.
It is a one-off decision for you
Your team makes this choice once; we make it for a living. Independent expertise turns a high-risk, unfamiliar decision into a structured, evidence-based one.
Every technology — so the recommendation is honest.
Because we cover the whole field, we can tell you when a cheaper option is good enough and when only the premium one will do. That is the point of being technology-neutral.
Real-time location
UWB, Bluetooth (BLE), Wi-Fi, ultrasound, and infrared — metre to centimetre accuracy, matched to the use case.
Identification & track-and-trace
Passive and active RFID, RAIN (UHF) RFID, and NFC for inventory, asset, and chain-of-custody use cases.
Industrial IoT & sensors
Sensor, gateway, edge, and cloud architecture, including LoRaWAN and condition monitoring.
Outdoor & satellite
GPS and GNSS for yard, fleet, and outdoor tracking, bridged cleanly to indoor systems.
AGV & AMR fleets
Multi-vendor robot fleet selection and VDA 5050 orchestration, integrated with location and WMS/MES.
Hybrid stacks & analytics
Combining technologies per zone, unified into one event stream and turned into location intelligence.
Six steps from problem to a plan you can build.
Structured, evidence-based, and scoped to where you are. Engage the whole process or any single step.
Requirements & use cases
We map the workflows, accuracy needs, environment, and the business outcomes that actually justify the investment.
The right tech, vendor-neutral
We match technologies to each use case and zone — including hybrid mixes — with the trade-offs made explicit.
RFP & shortlist support
We define requirements, run a fair evaluation, and help you shortlist and negotiate — on your side of the table.
Numbers the board will back
A defensible cost and benefit model, total cost of ownership, and the KPIs the deployment must hit to pay off.
Solution & integration design
Anchor and reader topology, edge-versus-cloud split, event-bus design, and integration with WMS, MES, ERP, and BI.
A rollout that ships
A gated implementation plan with proof of concept, pilot, and scale phases — and clear go/no-go criteria at each gate.
Independent, multilingual, and end-to-end.
Genuinely independent
No hardware, no platform, no resale commissions. Unlike integrators who advise on the kit they also sell, our only product is the advice.
Full lifecycle
Advise, deploy, integrate, operate. Keep one independent team from the first business case through to a live, optimised system.
UK, Europe & multilingual
Based in the UK, working across Europe and beyond, and delivering in English, German, and French — close to your market and your language.
Consulting questions, answered.
Which technologies do you consult on?
All of the major location, identification and IoT technologies: RTLS (UWB, BLE, Wi-Fi), RFID (passive, active and RAIN UHF), industrial IoT and sensors, GPS and GNSS, AGV and AMR robot fleets, and hybrid stacks that combine them. We recommend the right mix for each zone and use case, not a single technology.
Are you really vendor-neutral?
Yes. We do not sell hardware or a software platform of our own, and we take no resale commissions, so our technology and vendor recommendations serve your outcome rather than a product we need to move.
Do you work outside the UK?
We are UK-based and work across Europe and internationally, delivering in English, German and French. Engagements can be remote or on-site depending on the work.
What does a consulting engagement include?
Typically discovery and requirements, vendor-neutral technology selection, vendor evaluation and RFP support, ROI and business case, solution architecture, and an implementation roadmap. We scope each engagement to where you are.
Can you help after the decision is made?
Yes. We work across the full lifecycle - we can also deploy, integrate, and operate the system, so you can keep one independent team from business case through to live operation.
How do we get started?
Usually with a short call or a fixed-fee discovery to scope the problem, followed by a proposal with clear deliverables, timeline and fees. There is no obligation and no platform pitch.