What Is an RFID and IoT Platform, and Why Does It Matter?

Tags, readers and sensors collect signals. On their own they do not tell you what happened or what to do next. A platform is the software layer that turns raw reads into useful business information.

What a platform does

• Manages devices, tags and users: only registered readers, tags and people can operate in the system.
• Turns reads into events: a series of tag reads becomes a movement, a location change or an exception.
• Automates workflows: rules send alerts, open tasks and request approvals when events happen.
• Connects to other systems: clean events flow to ERP, WMS, CMMS and BI tools through APIs.
• Supports many technologies: RFID, NFC, QR codes, barcodes, IoT sensors and GPS feed the same engine.

Why it matters

One system instead of many. Without a platform, each project ends up with its own software and data. With one, new solutions are added as modules on the same devices, users and data.

Hardware freedom. A hardware-agnostic platform lets you choose devices on merit and mix manufacturers.

Control and audit. Central authorisation and a record of events make governance simpler.

What to ask when you evaluate one

• Which device types and manufacturers does it support?
• How does it integrate with our ERP and other systems?
• Can it run in the cloud, on our servers or both?
• Can we start with one use case and add more later?

Learn more about the Tag’n’Track Platform and the solutions that run on it.

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