The receiving infrastructure for a BLE tracking deployment: gateways that hear tag advertisements and forward them over Wi-Fi or Ethernet to the platform. Placement of these decides the accuracy of the whole system far more than the tags do.
Tags advertise; gateways listen. Each gateway reports which tags it heard and at what signal strength, and the platform infers position from the pattern across gateways.
Which means gateway placement is the system design. Too few and coverage has holes that look like assets disappearing. Poorly placed and zones overlap in ways that make the inferred position ambiguous. Placed without regard to the racking, machinery and walls actually present, and the propagation model bears no relation to the site.
This is why a site survey precedes a deployment rather than following it. Measuring propagation on the real floor with real obstructions takes a day and prevents a rollout that never quite works.
| Parameter | Detail |
|---|---|
| Function | BLE receiver with IP uplink |
| Uplink | Wi-Fi or Ethernet |
| Role | Reports observed tags and signal strength to the platform |
| Placement | Determined by site survey against real obstructions |
| Power | Mains or Power over Ethernet depending on installation |
| Typical markets | Warehousing, manufacturing, healthcare, facilities |
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It depends on the zone granularity required and the propagation environment, which is why a site survey precedes deployment. Racking, machinery and construction materials affect propagation enough that a desk estimate is unreliable.
Because position is inferred from the pattern of which gateways heard a tag and how strongly. Poor placement produces coverage holes and ambiguous overlaps that no tag specification compensates for.
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