Yard RTLS | Products

Overview

Yard RTLS gives container terminals and intermodal yards a live top-down map of every container, reach stacker, yard truck and forklift on the asphalt. UWB anchors triangulate active tags to sub-meter accuracy, RFID gate reads confirm identity, and the position stream drives planning, security and equipment-utilisation dashboards.

Replaces walkie-talkie "where is…?" calls with a self-updating map. Cuts container search time, prevents geofence breaches, and feeds your TOS with truth-grade asset positions instead of stale last-known.

Sub-meter accuracy on UWB tagged equipment, ~3 m mean across mixed-tag yards
Asset universe — containers, RTGs, reach stackers, yard trucks, forklifts, gangs
Geofence engine — alerts when a tag leaves its lane or enters a no-go zone
TOS & ANPR fusion — gate-read identity stitched to UWB position

How It Works

Anchor mesh — UWB anchors mounted on light poles, RTG legs and building corners, 6–30 per yard, time-synchronised over wired or wireless backhaul.
Tags — pluggable UWB tag bricks bolted on equipment, magnetic tags on containers, hand-held tags for gangs. RFID gate reads associate tag IDs to container IDs.
Location engine — TDoA multilateration solver, Kalman-filtered, fuses UWB + RFID + GPS (outdoor). Outputs (asset_id, x, y, z, t) at 1–10 Hz.
Map & APIs — web map for ops, REST + MQTT egress for TOS, geofence rule engine for security and safety.

Features

Live yard map — 1 Hz refresh, asset filter by type, route trails, replay-by-time
Geofencing — polygon zones with enter / exit / dwell rules, multi-channel alert dispatch
Equipment utilisation — movement vs idle time per asset, per shift, per operator
Container locate — type a container ID, get position on map & ETA-to-gate
Anti-collision — proximity alerts between heavy equipment
RFID fusion — gate ANPR + RFID confirms container-to-tag binding
Replay — any minute of any day rewound for incident investigation
TOS bridge — live position push to Navis N4, CATOS, OPUS via REST / MQTT

Use Cases

Container terminals — live map of stacks, equipment and gangs across the yard
Intermodal rail yards — wagon and container tracking on rail aprons
Bonded warehouses — customs-grade location history for cleared cargo
Heavy industry yards — steel slab, log, pipe yard inventories with location
Logistics & 3PL yards — trailer-pool location, dock door queueing
Mining haul-roads — haul-truck position and proximity safety on private roads

Specifications

UWB: 6.5 GHz / 8 GHz channels, IEEE 802.15.4z compliant, TDoA & TWR modes
Accuracy: 0.3–1 m UWB equipment tags; 1–3 m container tags; 2.5 m GPS fallback
Anchor density: ~1 anchor per 3000–5000 m² for full coverage
Tag battery: 3–5 yr equipment tags; 7–10 yr container tags @ 0.2 Hz
Solver latency: <15 ms per fix on 100k-tag deployments
Capacity: up to 10k concurrent tags per location server
Environmental: IP67 anchors & tags, −30 to +70°C, salt-spray rated
Integrations: Navis N4, OPUS, CATOS, SAP EWM, ANPR systems, video walls