The Independent RTLS & RFID Buyer's Guide.
A practical, vendor-neutral playbook for teams scoping their first — or next — RTLS, Passive RFID or IoT location programme. Written from inside the industry, not a vendor's marketing department.
- How to choose between UWB, BLE, Passive RFID, GPS, LoRa & SLAM for your use case
- A technology-at-a-glance comparison: accuracy, range and best-fit
- The 10 questions to ask any vendor before you shortlist
- How to run a pilot that actually proves value — and the red flags that it isn't
- Benchmark outcomes to size the opportunity before you spend
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Eight chapters, written by people who have shipped this.
Use-case discovery
The seven questions every successful RTLS programme answers before the technology conversation starts.
Technology selection
UWB vs BLE vs Passive RFID vs LoRa vs SLAM vs GPS. The decision tree, the trade-offs, the gotchas.
Vendor evaluation
A scoring template covering radio performance, software openness, integration footprint, TCO, and vendor stability.
The RFP
What to include, what to leave out. Sample evaluation criteria with weights.
ROI modelling
The four value drivers, how to quantify them, sensitivity analysis for the CFO conversation.
Programme governance
The four gates between scoping and live rollout. Who signs off on what.
Integration architecture
ISA-95 / Purdue alignment, MES / EMR / WMS plumbing, event schema, security to IEC 62443.
15 common traps
Procurement, technical, and commercial mistakes we've seen consistently — and how to sidestep them.