Overview
Overview
Yard RTLS Heatmaps turns the firehose of UWB / RFID / GPS position fixes from your yard RTLS into instantly readable maps: where containers are stuck, which equipment is idling, and which sectors are over-utilised. It is the "why" layer on top of live RTLS — the difference between knowing where things are and knowing what to do about it.
Designed for terminal ops directors, yard planners and shift supervisors who need to make re-stack and re-assignment decisions in minutes, not weekly review meetings.
- Dwell-time heatmap — instantly spot stuck containers (red = >14 days)
- Equipment utilisation heatmap — idle vs active time per asset, per sector
- Congestion heatmap — vehicle density and choke-points by hour
- Action centre — dispatch re-stack orders straight from a hot spot
How It Works
- Ingest fix stream from the yard RTLS (12k positions / sec on a busy terminal).
- Spatial bin — project onto a 50×50 grid (or finer) over the yard footprint.
- Dwell calc — per-tag time-in-cell rolled up to per-container dwell-days.
- Render WebGL tiles — smooth coloured overlays at 60 FPS on the planner's map.
- Thresholds & alerts — cells crossing red thresholds trigger work-order suggestions.
Features
- 4 heat modes — dwell, equipment-idle, congestion, custom KPI
- Time-travel — slide through any hour/day/week to see how zones formed
- Sector roll-up — utilisation, dwell distribution, throughput per sector
- Hot-zone alerts — configurable thresholds with email / Slack / PagerDuty
- Action centre — click a hot spot, generate a re-stack / re-assign work order
- Exports — PNG / PDF for management decks; CSV for BI tools
- Equipment heatmaps — where does each RS / YT spend its shift?
- Compare periods — this week vs last week heatmap delta
Use Cases
- Stuck inventory cleanup — visualise & clear long-dwell containers blocking turnover
- Sector rebalancing — surface over-used and under-used storage sectors
- Equipment fleet right-sizing — data-driven case for adding or shedding reach stackers
- Operator coaching — spot routing patterns that create congestion
- Customer SLA reviews — per-line dwell distribution, on-time metrics
- Capacity planning — before / after heatmaps to validate yard re-design
Specifications
- Input: any RTLS feed via REST / MQTT / Kafka (12k+ fixes/s tested)
- Storage: ClickHouse / TimescaleDB time-series + PostGIS for spatial
- Rendering: WebGL tile rendering, 60 FPS on 50k+ visible assets
- Grid resolution: 1 m to 20 m per cell, configurable per layer
- History: 90 days online; multi-year cold storage with replay
- Alerts: threshold engine with hysteresis, email / SMS / Slack / webhook
- Integrations: SGT Yard RTLS, ZebraMotionWorks, Sewio, Quuppa, AeroScout
- Hosting: SaaS, private cloud, or on-prem; multi-tenant ready
Product information
| Product name | Yard RTLS Heatmaps |
|---|---|
| Category | Port & Logistics |
| Type | IoT Based Product |
| Procurement | Contact / Negotiable |
Customisation options
- Heatmap modes — dwell, equipment utilisation, congestion, custom KPI overlay
- Grid resolution — 1 m precision, 5 m balanced (default), 20 m sector roll-up
- Time-window presets — last 24h, shift, week, month, custom range with replay
- RTLS source — SGT Yard RTLS, ZebraMotionWorks, Sewio, Quuppa, AeroScout, generic feed
- Alert thresholds — bring your own dwell / idle / density thresholds, or use SGT defaults
- Action centre — read-only, propose work orders, or full dispatch into TOS / WMS
- Export formats — PNG, PDF, CSV, GeoJSON, Power BI live link
- Hosting — SGT cloud, your private cloud, or on-prem with edge GPU for WebGL
Ordering & lead time
Standard lead time depends on current stock. For volume orders, please contact our team for a structured quote including BOQ, freight, installation and warranty terms.
Support
Engineering support, installation guidance and warranty claims are handled by our customer success team. Reach us at support@sgtsystems.com or via the channels listed on our Contact page.