Litum: independent supplier assessment.

Litum is a privately-held company with offices in Turkey and the US, founded 2004: one of the longer-running UWB specialists.

Portfolio focuses on industrial safety: pedestrian-vehicle collision avoidance, contact tracing, asset tracking, and zone access. Strong reference base in manufacturing safety and warehouse pedestrian-forklift contexts.

Comparing this supplier with others? See independent supplier selection.

Forklift-pedestrian collision avoidance is a core competence: tag-to-vehicle proximity detection with vehicle-interlock integration.

Contact tracing rose to prominence during the pandemic. The underlying capability remains useful for safety analytics. Pricing is competitive at the safety-specific end of UWB.

For broad asset tracking, WIP visibility or large-scale industrial RTLS, dedicated platform suppliers (Sewio, Ubisense, Pozyx) typically have more polished application layers. Litum is most credible in tightly-defined safety use cases rather than as a general-purpose RTLS supplier.

Versus Sewio: Sewio is open-platform general-purpose UWB; Litum is safety-focused. Versus Ubisense: different scopes (Ubisense industrial general-purpose, Litum safety-specific).

For collision avoidance and contact-tracing specifically, Litum is on the shortlist. See Forklift collision avoidance for the architecture pattern.

From a buyer’s architecture view, separate silicon or vehicle hardware from platform software, from workflow applications, from integrator delivery. Conflating those layers is how RFPs ask one supplier to be four things and then punish them for gaps that belong elsewhere in the BOM. Public product materials should be read as capability claims to validate on your floor, not as acceptance certificates.

TRACIO maps this supplier into the correct layer for your programme and scores it against alternatives in the same layer. We don't sell hardware, so our advice stays independent. Assessments stay independent of channel incentives.

Fit improves when your accuracy or throughput SLO, integration surface and support geography line up with the supplier’s centre of gravity. Ask for references that match your industry, site scale and radio or vehicle class. A glossy logo slide from an adjacent vertical is weak evidence. Pilot on the real process with production interference present.

Also confirm whether success depends on a partner SI. Many credible platforms ship through channels; that is fine if the partner is named, contracted and measured against the same accuracy gate as the OEM.

For broad asset tracking, WIP visibility or large-scale industrial RTLS, dedicated platform suppliers (Sewio, Ubisense, Pozyx) typically have more polished application layers.

Walk away or dual-source when your SLO sits outside the proven accuracy band, when procurement origin or risk policy blocks the supplier, when services bench is thin in your region, or when the commercial model forces platform modules you will never operationalise. An accurate “not fit” early is cheaper than a stalled pilot.

Keep at least one alternative in the same layer through design review so pricing and roadmap pressure stay real. For hybrid programmes, expect complementary suppliers across layers (for example RAIN identity at docks plus UWB on vehicles, or Wi-Fi analytics plus BLE-AoA in precision zones). See our comparisons for head-to-heads that match common shortlists.

Write accuracy or performance SLOs per zone before you request quotes. Require independent RF or site-design review rights, a live acceptance test method, tag or robot battery and refresh assumptions, integration scope into MES/WMS/EMR, and a five-year TCO workbook that separates hardware, licences, install PMO and application work. Ban vanity metrics that only appear in empty-lab demos.

Commercial diligence should cover support hours for your geographies, spare-parts lead times, firmware cadence, data residency, exit clauses for raw data access, and whether professional services are OEM or partner delivered. TRACIO helps you choose AGVs and AMRs and plan fleet management; we do not sell robots.

If this supplier clears the gate on your constraints, we will say so. If another clears it cheaper at equal SLO, we will say that too. Independence is the product.