Manufacturing
IoT that answers a question you already have.
Asset and inventory tracking on the tags we make ourselves. Temperature, humidity and energy logged continuously, with alerts when a reading leaves the band. Gateways that keep working when the internet does not, and readings that land where you already look.
On quote the site drives the price more than the sensor count does
Contact us for a site survey, sensor count, connectivity and lead time
Tell us the question before you tell us the sensor
The usual way an IoT project goes wrong is not technical. It is that everything gets instrumented, a dashboard appears with forty tiles on it, and within a month nobody opens it because no single tile was tied to a decision anybody actually makes.
So the first conversation is about what you want to stop guessing at: which room went out of range, what is drawing power overnight, where the trolley went. One question answered properly is worth more than a building full of sensors, and it is usually a much smaller quote than you expect.
Asset and inventory tracking
- UHF tags read at gates and doorways, so a movement is logged without anybody stopping to scan
- Handheld readers for stock counts that take an afternoon rather than a weekend
- On-metal and ruggedised tags, for tools, trolleys and anything where the surface fights the antenna
- Tags made on the same line as the cards, so the tag and the reader are specified together rather than separately
- Movement tied to a person and a time, not just to a location
Temperature and humidity
- Cold rooms, stores and server rooms logged continuously rather than checked on a clipboard
- Alerts by WhatsApp, email or SMS the moment a reading leaves the band you set
- History retained, so an auditor can be shown the last twelve months instead of this morning
- Battery sensors where running a cable is not practical, mains-powered where it is
- Placement chosen against what you are actually protecting: the reading at the door is not the reading in the middle of the room
Energy metering
- Clamp-on CT meters per panel, line or department, fitted without rewiring
- Consumption over time, so the bill becomes a set of numbers you can act on
- Load patterns that show what is still running out of hours and should not be
- Solar and generator contribution tracked alongside grid draw where both are present
- Per-department figures where the cost has to be allocated internally
Gateways and integration
- Edge gateways that keep logging when the internet drops and backfill when it returns
- Wi-Fi, Ethernet, LoRaWAN or 4G chosen against the building rather than the brochure
- Modbus and MQTT where the equipment already speaks them
- Dashboards that can be read at a glance, with CSV export for whoever wants the raw numbers
- Readings into Vybe ERP where you already run it, rather than a second system to log into
In detail
A reading is only useful if somebody trusts it.
Placement decides the number
A temperature sensor mounted next to the door of a cold room will read the corridor every time somebody opens it, and the record will show excursions that never happened to the stock. One buried at the back behind a pallet will read nothing but the pallet. Neither is a sensor fault and no amount of software fixes either. Where the sensor goes is a judgement about what you are protecting, made on site with the doors open and the shelves loaded, and it is the part of the job that earns its money.
Alerts that people still read in month six
An alert that fires twice a day gets muted within a fortnight, and the one that mattered goes with it. So the bands are set against what the stock or the equipment can actually tolerate rather than against a round number, with a delay so a door held open for thirty seconds does not page anybody, and an escalation so an unacknowledged alert at two in the morning reaches a second person. Tuning this after a few weeks of real data is part of the installation, not an extra.
Connectivity is where these projects actually fail
The sensors are rarely the problem. The problem is the cold store at the back of the building where Wi-Fi does not reach, the 4G that works on a phone at head height and not on a gateway in a plant room, and the site where somebody unplugs the router every night. That is what the survey is looking for. Sometimes the answer is LoRaWAN because it walks through walls the Wi-Fi will not; sometimes it is a cable, because a cable is boring and works.
One place to look
Every system added to a business brings a login, and a login nobody uses is a system that is not doing anything. Where you already run Vybe ERP, readings and asset movements can appear there alongside everything else, so checking them is part of a routine somebody already has rather than a separate habit they have to build. Where they have to live in their own dashboard, we would rather put five tiles on it that get read than forty that do not.
Related
What usually goes with an IoT installation.
All manufacturing & supply
What we make and what we distribute, in one place.
RFID & NFC cards
The tags and cards the tracking side reads, made and encoded here.
IT hardware distribution
The displays, mini PCs and networking the dashboards run on.
Vybe ERP
Where the readings can land, instead of a separate login.
IT & cyber
The networking, cabling and security the gateways depend on.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Where does a project like this actually start?
With a question rather than a sensor. "Which cold room went out of range last month", "what are we still running at two in the morning", "where did that trolley go". Each of those implies a different sensor in a different place, and answering one properly is worth more than instrumenting the whole building and reading none of it. Tell us the decision you want to make and we will work backwards to the smallest installation that answers it.
Can this use the RFID tags you already make?
Yes, and it is the main reason this sits under manufacturing rather than under IT. The tags and cards are made and encoded here, so the tag, the reader and the numbering are specified together instead of being bought from three places and reconciled afterwards. If you already run cards from us for doors or attendance, asset tracking can reuse the same numbering rather than starting a second scheme. The chip side of that is covered on RFID and NFC card manufacturing.
What happens when the internet at the site goes down?
The gateway keeps logging locally and backfills when the link returns, so you get a gap in the dashboard rather than a hole in the record. This matters more than it sounds: the sites that most need monitoring are often the ones with the least reliable connectivity, and a system that silently stops recording during an outage is worse than no system, because you only discover it when somebody asks for the very period that is missing.
Does it feed into Vybe ERP?
Where you run it, yes. Readings and asset movements can land in Vybe ERP so there is one place to look rather than another login and another password. Where you run something else, we can export to it or simply hand you CSV and an API and let your team do the joining. What we try to avoid is leaving you with a dashboard nobody opens because it lives somewhere separate from the system people already have open all day.
Who owns the data?
You do, and you can export all of it at any time in a format that is useful rather than deliberately awkward. We will tell you plainly where it is stored before anything is installed. If your policy requires it to stay on your own hardware, that is a reasonable policy and the gateway can be configured to keep it there, but it changes the quote and it is better raised at the start than discovered at handover.
What happens when a sensor fails?
It is treated as an event rather than as silence. A sensor that stops reporting raises the same kind of alert as one reporting a bad number, because the failure mode that actually hurts is a dead sensor sitting unnoticed for six weeks while everybody assumes the cold room is fine. Batteries are reported before they die rather than after. Spares are quoted with the installation so a replacement is a swap rather than a procurement exercise.
What does it cost?
Quoted, and the site drives it more than the sensor count does. A single cold room is a small job; six buildings with poor connectivity and an energy meter on every panel is not. The survey is where the real number comes from, because cable runs, mounting and how far the gateway sits from the sensors move the price more than the hardware list does. Tell us the site and the question you want answered at sales@vybe.net.in and a figure comes back.
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