TrackSphere Hybrid
The problem
Assets vanish from the data the moment they move. GPS dies indoors, Wi-Fi covers only some buildings, and indoor RTLS stops at the door. No single system follows a tool or order from the assembly line, across the yard, onto a truck, to the customer — so teams fall back on manual counts and bleed hours chasing missing equipment.
The idea
TrackSphere Hybrid is a tracking system designed to follow an asset across those broken boundaries — indoor to outdoor, stationary to in-transit — by fusing complementary radios instead of relying on any one of them. UWB gives precise indoor range, BLE gives presence and connectivity, and the gaps GPS or Wi-Fi leave are bridged rather than fallen through — so a single track follows the asset from the assembly line, across the yard, onto a truck, to the customer.
Main goals
- Maintain a continuous track of an asset across indoor, yard, and in-transit zones — no handoff gap where the asset "disappears."
- Fuse UWB range and BLE signals into a robust position estimate that degrades gracefully when one radio drops.
- Hand off cleanly between zones (indoor RTLS → yard → in-transit) without the asset disappearing from the data.
- Replace manual counts with a continuous, queryable location record.
In to come
This is an active build. The interactive pitch deck below lays out the concept; the engineering write-up — the UWB/BLE fusion and the cross-zone handoff — will be filled in as the work lands.
Links
Pitch deck: a-teresa.github.io/trackSphereHybrid