NearLink High-Precision Positioning Solution for Indoor Personnel and Asset Tracking

NearLink Positioning Solution

GPS and BeiDou perform well outdoors, but satellite signals are often weakened by walls, metal structures and industrial equipment. Factories, hospitals, warehouses, mines and commercial buildings therefore require a dedicated indoor positioning system.

A NearLink positioning solution combines wireless positioning tags, base stations, gateways, a positioning engine and an IoT management platform. It can track workers, medical equipment, vehicles, tools and valuable assets in real time.

System Architecture

A complete solution may include:

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  NearLink personnel badges or asset tags
  
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  NearLink positioning base stations
  
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  Edge gateways
  
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  A location calculation engine
  
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  Electronic maps and geofences
  
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  Web, mobile app and API access
  
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  The lora8 IoT management platform
  

Signals or ranging data collected by multiple base stations are processed by the positioning engine. The calculated location is then displayed on a digital map.

Key Functions

The platform supports real-time location monitoring, historical route playback, electronic geofences, SOS alarms, unauthorized-area alerts, long-stay warnings and asset inventory management.

For outdoor-to-indoor tracking, NearLink can be integrated with GPS, BeiDou, LoRa, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and inertial sensors. The device can automatically select the appropriate positioning method according to its environment.

Applications

NearLink indoor positioning can be used for worker safety in factories, medical equipment tracking, warehouse vehicle management, mine personnel monitoring, valuable-tool management and emergency response.

Customized by Jinshengchang Technology

Shenzhen Jinshengchang Technology Co., Ltd. has 13 years of experience in GPS and IoT product development. We can customize NearLink badges, asset tags, gateways, firmware, communication protocols and location-management platforms.

Before deployment, our engineers evaluate the required accuracy, building structure, interference, update interval, battery life and number of tracked devices. A site survey and pilot installation are recommended before large-scale rollout because positioning accuracy depends on the actual environment.