Independent advice. Twenty years of locating programmes. No hardware to sell.
We select, integrate and govern locating systems for industrial, healthcare and logistics teams. No reseller margin. No platform of our own. 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 vendor 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 honest second opinion in the room.
The default route — ask one or two vendors 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 vendors, 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 sell hardware. We do not earn referral fees, kickbacks or resale margin from the vendors we recommend. We do not have a software platform that has to win the deal.
The only thing we sell is time and judgement — strategy, vendor selection, RF site survey, architecture, programme delivery, integration, 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, we bring vetted integrators and domain experts — also with no commission and no resale obligations.
The result is what you wanted in the first place: a vendor-neutral, evidence-based path from a real operating problem to a system that pays back.
Why each stakeholder trusts the advice
Two decades across buyer and vendor seats — so the advice holds up whoever you are in the room.
Delivered programmes, not slideware
Twenty years of shipped RTLS, RFID and IoT track-and-trace — with outcomes to show.
Genuinely independent
No reseller margin, no platform of our own — only what fits the use case and the budget.
Vendor-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 — TRACIO has been there, building, breaking, and rebuilding it all.
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), HIPAA-aligned clinical deployments, and the first wave of SLAM-based infrastructure-free positioning.
AGV/AMR orchestration & AI
VDA 5050-compliant multi-vendor 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, vendor-neutral, outcome-driven. Built for enterprises selecting and deploying location intelligence across EMEA, APAC and the Americas.
The stacks and vendors we actually know — by name, not brochure.
Two decades of working for, with, and against the major RTLS, Passive RFID, BLE, UWB, LPWAN, 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 vendor 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 vendors 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-vendor architectures, ML-driven analytics layers, digital-twin integration, and continuous performance governance.
What your vendors will not put in the proposal.
The RTLS and RFID market is full of hardware vendors and integrators with allegiances. TRACIO has neither. Recommendation, architecture and rollout plan are driven by your outcomes — not by a partner programme.
True independence
No reseller margins, no vendor commissions, no MDF. What you pay TRACIO is what TRACIO earns.
Technical + commercial
Solution architecture, hardware specification, channel strategy and contract review — one team carrying buyer, vendor 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 vendor side of the table.
TRACIO’s founder 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.
What clients hire us to do.
Independent advisory
Vendor-neutral architecture, vendor selection, RFP support, ROI modelling.
Platform build
Strategy plus delivery as one accountable team — full source code transferred to client.
Heavy equipment & fleet management
GPS, telematics, RFID, maintenance, workforce, fuel — integrated.
Programme rescue
Diagnosing failed pilots and rebuilding around operational outcomes.
Independence policy
No hardware sales, no reseller commissions, no commercial bias.
TRACIO Programme Method
How we run discovery, build, UAT and go-live with audit-grade governance.
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, vendor-neutral shortlists, RFP, TCO and board packs. Paid only by you.
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 honest after go-live.
Training & enablement
Vendor-neutral 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.
Founder-led. Dylan Austin.
TRACIO is led by founder and principal advisor Dylan Austin. Two decades in locating programmes — RTLS, RFID, BLE, UWB, Wi‑Fi and industrial IoT — across sales, technical sales and implementation, then independent advisory from business case through architecture, vendor selection, delivery and live operation.
The independence model comes from sitting both seats the hard way — vendor-side engineer and customer-side buyer. The right technology decisions need someone in the room who is not paid by the vendor's outcome.
On platform-build engagements, Dylan leads architecture and the client relationship personally — typically 30–50% allocation through the programme, with a vetted senior delivery team handling the build under his direction. Specialised practices (digital twin, cold-chain & pharma, OT cybersecurity, LoRaWAN) and the core programme teams (advisory, install & PMO, rescue, managed services, training) are staffed the same way: senior practitioners, founder-accountable, never a hardware sales desk.
Background — roles, industries and use cases
Before founding TRACIO, Dylan worked end-to-end across sales, technical sales and implementation — not a single silo. That means the commercial case, the RF/architecture choices and the go-live are the same person’s judgement, not a hand-off between three vendors.
Where the work ran: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, South America and APAC — plant floors, hospitals, yards, dealerships, venues and training estates, not only HQ demos.
Industries & use cases shipped:
- Aerospace, defence & MRO — tool control, WIP visibility, UWB/RFID accountability, training estates and maintenance locating
- Automotive manufacturing — WIP / line-flow locating, just-in-sequence material movement
- Automotive retail — dealership vehicle tracking, WIP and PDI visibility
- Pharma & life sciences — cold-chain, serialisation, custody and regulated locating
- Data centres — asset accuracy, dock-to-rack, change and cage visibility
- Mining & heavy industrial — people safety, mustering, fleet and zone control
- Sports & venues — player / athlete tracking and venue analytics
- Logistics & industrial — yard, dock, heavy-fleet and AMR/AGV fleet orchestration; hybrid RFID + RTLS stacks
- Healthcare & enterprise Wi‑Fi RTLS — equipment and people flow on infrastructure-led stacks
Stack depth from vendor-side roles: Wi‑Fi RTLS; Passive RFID, BLE, UWB and Active RFID; industrial UWB / fleet-manager / location OS platforms — across EMEA, APAC and global sales motions. Named employers and programme sponsors stay off this page; live TRACIO references remain under NDA.
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