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Small devices, worn and mounted where your people work.

Tags go on your people, your vehicles and your things. Anchors go on ceilings, walls and columns. The module goes inside your own products. Here’s who carries each one and why — then the exact specs.

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Anchors mount on walls, columns and ceilings — in a warehouse, or a tunnel.

Find your device

Start with who it’s for.

Every tag we make has our patented technology built in, and every device works with the full real-time location system. Start with tags alone and add the full RTLS later — no need to buy new devices.

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  1. Personnel Badge Worn by your people.
  2. Vehicle Mount Tag On the forklift, connected to its CAN bus.
  3. General Purpose Tag On carts, assets and anything else that moves.
  4. RTLS Module Inside your own robot, vehicle or device.
  5. Anchors High on ceilings, walls and columns.

Worn or carried

By your people — and on the vehicles and things they work with.

Mounted overhead

By your installer, on ceilings, beams, walls and columns.

Built into your product

By your engineers, inside your own devices and vehicles.

Positioned by Redpoint

What every device has in common.

Our patented technology is embedded into every device on our platform. So the things that stop other devices — crowding, heavy equipment, wide spaces and speeding motion — won’t stop ours.

Reliably accurate

Accuracy up to 10 cm — and, more importantly, it does not degrade in complex environments.

True low latency

Our patented Low Latency Link technology uses Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth together, so accuracy and latency aren’t compromised even in areas with many tags.

Two-Way Communication

Send and receive messages via tags, change configuration, collect and view sensor data real-time, and deliver over-the-air firmware and software updates automatically.

Unlimited capacity and scalability

Cover millions of square feet with unlimited tags and up to 65,000 anchors — four times as many as most other indoor positioning systems available today.

Long Battery Life

Bluetooth needs less power than Ultra-wideband, so combining the two gives you the accuracy and low latency of UWB with the long battery life of Bluetooth.

Tags

On the people, vehicles and things that move.

Our tags come in a variety of sizes and form factors to meet your specific needs: Personnel Badge, General Purpose Tag, Vehicle Mounted Tag and Module.

Redpoint Screened Personnel Badge with an e-paper display and a red button

Personnel Badge

Who wears it
Your employees, clipped on for the shift.
Why
It lights up and buzzes to warn them of a hazard — the screened version also shows what the warning is.

The Personnel Badge is designed for employees to wear, and it comes in two versions — screened and screenless. Both versions offer:

  • RGB LED provides status as well as user-alert functionality
  • On-board buzzer alerts for safety hazards and incoming messages
  • 6-axis IMU for motion sensing and power management
  • Support for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication
  • Support for Near Field Communication (NFC-A) listen mode
  • Long battery life
  • IP62
  • Magnetic wireless charging

Only with the Screened Badge

  • The Electronic Paper Display (EPD) screen displays warning details related to a hazard
  • The user can receive and acknowledge messages and warnings
Download the Personnel Badges datasheet (PDF)

Personnel Badge Lite

Who wears it
Your employees, when a simpler badge is all they need.
Why
The same light and buzzer warnings, charged with a standard USB-C cable.

The Personnel Badge Lite is a simple version of the Personnel Badge, designed for employees to wear. This version offers:

  • RGB LED provides status as well as user-alert functionality
  • On-board buzzer alerts for safety hazards and incoming messages
  • 6-axis IMU for motion sensing and power management
  • Support for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication
  • Standard USB-C cable or bank charger
Download the Personnel Badge Lite datasheet (PDF)

Vehicle Mount Tag-CAN bus Interface

Who it’s for
Your forklifts and other vehicles — and the drivers in them.
Why
It talks to the vehicle itself, so a warning can reach the truck, not just the driver.

The Vehicle Mount Tag - CAN bus (VMT-C) brings location awareness to all vehicles supporting this standard protocol:

  • Connects directly to any vehicle supporting CAN bus and may be easily integrated to exchange data
  • Tag measures distances to other tags and triggers collision warnings based on predefined rules
  • Change configuration or update firmware without taking the tag off the vehicle
  • Waterproofed, designed for harsh operation conditions such as strong shock and constant vibration
  • Mount the tag to the vehicle with screws or zip ties, no special tools needed
Download the Vehicle Mount Tag-CAN bus datasheet (PDF)
Redpoint General Purpose Tag with a red call button

General Purpose Tag

Who it’s for
Anything you need to find — assets, vehicles, and people too.
Why
Small and configurable, with a call button to send an emergency message.

The General Purpose Tag is a small, versatile, and configurable tag that can track any objects including assets, vehicles, and people.

  • Multi-functional call button for resetting the tag and sending an emergency message to the server
  • Tri-color LED provides status as well as user-alert functionality
  • Includes a 4-pin sensor and alarm interface port: power input, alarm input, alarm output and ground
  • 6-axis IMU for motion sensing and power management
  • Magnetic Wireless Charge
  • Battery life lasts up to 3 years
Download the General Purpose Tag datasheet (PDF)

Anchors

Up high, out of the way, covering the floor.

Our anchors form a virtual, wireless, geofenced environment and provide location and data services to enable two-way communication with any UWB device on the network. They create a self-organizing mesh network and are completely self-calibrating. You can collect and view sensor data real-time and deliver over-the-air firmware and software updates automatically.

Redpoint Indoor Ceiling Mount Anchor, a white dome, beside Redpoint tags

Indoor Ceiling Mount Anchor (ICMA)

Where it goes
On the ceiling of an indoor site, or clamped to an I-beam.
Why
One device covers a wide circle of floor, powered and connected by a single cable.

The Indoor Ceiling Mount Anchor is a full-functioning UWB anchor designed to be deployed indoors.

  • Omnidirectional coverage with 50m (170ft) range for large-scale deployments
  • Power-over-ethernet provides constant DC power as well as data connectivity when connected to a switch
  • Over-the-air updates for upgrading and configuration
  • Easy installation with two mounting options: an I-beam clamp or screwed directly into your ceiling
Download the Indoor Ceiling Mount Anchor datasheet (PDF)

IP Rated PoE Anchor

Where it goes
On a wall or column in buildings without temperature or humidity control.
Why
Sealed to IP65 for dusty, damp or unheated spaces.

The IP-rated PoE Anchor is a full-function UWB anchor designed to be deployed indoors in buildings without temperature or humidity regulation.

  • IP65
  • Omnidirectional coverage with 50m (170ft) range for large-scale deployments
  • Power-over-ethernet provides constant DC power as well as data connectivity when connected to a switch
  • Over-the-air updates for upgrading and configuration
  • Easily mounted to a surface such as a wall or column using the provided mounting bracket
Download the IP Rated PoE Anchor datasheet (PDF)

Indoor PoE Anchor

Where it goes
On a wall or column, indoors.
Why
The same coverage and single-cable power, with a simple bracket mount.

The Indoor power-over-ethernet (PoE) Anchor is deployed indoors only.

  • Omnidirectional coverage with 50m (170ft) range for large-scale deployments
  • Power-over-ethernet provides constant DC power as well as data connectivity when connected to a switch
  • Over-the-air updates for upgrading and configuration
  • It is easily mounted to a surface such as a wall or column using the provided mounting bracket.
Download the Indoor PoE Anchor datasheet (PDF)

RTLS Module

Inside your product.

You can integrate our module into your existing products for the same powerful connectivity in your preferred form factor.

Redpoint RTLS Module circuit board shown next to a US quarter for scale

RTLS Module (for integration)

Who it’s for
Redpoint partners and clients designing their own tags, devices or vehicles.
Why
Everything a Redpoint tag can do, on one small board — no additional hardware.

The RTLS Module has all the location tracking capabilities of our tags in a compact form factor, making it easy to integrate into your existing products. The self-contained module delivers high-accuracy positioning and data communication over the Redpoint UWB network without the need for additional hardware.

The module allows Redpoint partners and clients to design their own location tags or add real-time location and two-way data communication to existing devices, vehicles, and more.

The module is a single PCB design which includes

  • Micro-controller
  • UWB radio transceiver with an onboard antenna
  • BLE radio with onboard antenna
  • 6-axis IMU
  • Power management circuitry
Download the RTLS Module datasheet (PDF)

Continuous improvement

The patents inside every device.

We’re constantly innovating to lead the connected future. This is some of the patented technology we’ve created to give you the most reliable, accurate system available.

  • Patented TDoA scheme
  • Patented NLOS compensation
  • Patented multi-tiered positioning
  • Patented Protocol stack for networking and data communication
  • Self-organizing, self-healing full wireless infrastructure

With additional patents pending and development underway, we will continue to bring you the most cutting-edge location technology.

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Tell us who’s on your floor and what they drive. We’ll suggest the tags and anchors — and how many.

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