Millimeter-Precise Asset Tracking for the Smart Factory

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SINFOSY digital GmbH – Dorfanger 2 – D-15713 Königs Wusterhausen – GERMANY

The digitalization of industrial value creation is progressing rapidly. Production and logistics processes are becoming increasingly interconnected, regulations demand complete transparency, and companies are under intense cost pressure.

Precise localization of goods, tools, and assets plays a key role in this.

But reality shows that existing radiobased positioning technologies are reaching their limits. Whether RFID, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Wi-Fi, or Ultra Wideband (UWB) – all approaches suffer from fundamental limitations: insufficient accuracy, high hardware costs, energy problems, or low update frequencies.

For many applications where centimeter- or even millimeter-level precision is essential, they are simply inadequate.

With SINTRA AIPick, SINFOSY digital GmbH presents a completely new approach: the combination of optical trackers and standard cameras (smartphones) for highly precise realtime positioning. Thanks to innovative algorithms, the center point of each tracker is recorded with pixel precision and integrated into the digital factory layout. The result: submillimeter precision at a distance of 2 meters, five position measurements per second – all using commercially available, cost-effective hardware.