Business value
Solution
Opportunity
INDOOR & OUTDOOR ASSET TRACKING FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Rapid rollout with accurate indoor & outdoor
geolocation using Abeeway tracker technology. Harsh
temperature and RF industrial conditions where Wi-Fi
and LoRaWAN® macro-diversity was key to achieve
QoS.
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Volvo, Abeeway, Actility and HERE Technologies collaborated to build the indoor
tracking infrastructure leveraging Wi-Fi fingerprinting technology and an
industrial grade LoRaWAN® network.
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Abeeway's industrial trackers collected the Wi-Fi AP information and relayed the
measurements over LoRaWAN® for [SM1] accurate position determination by
HERE.
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The main challenges of the project were the usage conditions (+70°C
when racks go through the painting process) and 5m target location accuracy.
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In the Venissieux Volvo Trucks factory, hundreds of special racks are
used to carry engines along the production chain, spreading over
25,000 sq. meters fully covered by 60 Wi-Fi Aps.
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Assets can easily get lost in such a large facility causing blockages
to the entire production chain.
