Key Differentiators
In the RTLS landscape, market solutions vary significantly in terms of technology, performance, infrastructure, security, and features.
In this context, bleenc stands out from other RTLS solutions on the market, thanks to its distinctive features, demonstrating how its innovative architecture and advanced capabilities reduce costs, enhance security, and enable new use-cases.
In this context, bleenc stands out from other RTLS solutions on the market, thanks to its distinctive features, demonstrating how its innovative architecture and advanced capabilities reduce costs, enhance security, and enable new use-cases.
Ultra-low-energy bidirectional protocol
Most BLE-based RTLS solutions use tags that operate only as transmitters. While this is sufficient for positioning, it prevents any form of bidirectional interaction between the tags and the system.
bleenc implements a patent-pending solution that enables bidirectional communication between tags and gateways with a negligible impact on the tag’s energy consumption—only about 10% higher than one-way transmission. This approach makes possible to support advanced features such as sending notifications and alarms, pick-to-light and find-by-light applications, management of e-paper tags.
Encryption with device authentication
Most BLE-based RTLS systems rely on commercial tags that often use unencrypted communication protocols such as iBeacon or Eddystone. The use of these protocols does not provide the level of security required for industrial applications and, in scenarios involving people tracking, fails to meet essential privacy requirements.
bleenc uses a proprietary solution in which data is protected through AES-128 encryption, an industry-standard method that ensures both information confidentiality and device authentication. Additionally, tag identifiers change periodically, preventing them from being tracked by unauthorized third-party devices.
Hybrid wired/wireless localization infrastrucure
In today’s RTLS landscape, the choice often comes down to wired infrastructures—which provide real-time tracking but entail higher costs for design, cabling, and installation— or wireless infrastructures, which significantly reduce deployment costs but cannot deliver real-time visibility of movements and events.
bleenc natively adopts a hybrid localization infrastructure based on a two-level architecture: the first level, composed of wired antennas, provides real-time visibility and tracking with area- or zone-level localization; the second level, consisting of beacons, enables precise room-level localization, with an on-demand logic.
Native support for e-paper displays
