Bluetooth Beacons in Supply Chain Management

Active RFID and GPS both offer powerful opportunities in logistics, warehousing, and distribution, but the maturing Bluetooth tag is expanding the sector. Affordable, versatile, and easily implemented, these tags are powering new use cases and enabling asset tracking for companies that were previously unable to afford it.

In this paper we examine how to:

• Increase asset utilization
• Differentiate RFID, GPS, and BLE
• Simplify cooperative supply chains
• Understand beacons and their deployment