Intralogistics tracking for warehouses, production and yards
Most lost time inside a site is spent looking for things that are already there. GoAndTrack tracks equipment, carriers and stock movement by zone using BLE tags, gateways and vehicle detection, so internal movement becomes measurable.
What is intralogistics tracking?
Intralogistics tracking is asset visibility inside the four walls — and the yard — rather than across the network. The unit of answer is a zone and a duration, not a coordinate.
Internal movement is where a surprising amount of operational loss hides. A cage that should have gone to dispatch sits in staging for six hours. A trolley of work-in-progress is somewhere in the building, and three people spend twenty minutes finding it. A returnable pool is short at the start of a shift because units are still in the wash area.
None of this appears in a transport system, and much of it does not appear in a warehouse management system either, because the system believes a task was completed while the physical item stayed put. Tracking makes the physical reality visible alongside the system record.
Zones, gateways and detection inside a site
A site is divided into meaningful zones — goods-in, staging, production cells, dispatch, wash, yard — and detection points are placed where crossing between them matters.
Zone design
Zones are defined around the decisions you make, not the floor plan. If nobody acts differently based on a boundary, it does not need to be a zone.
Fixed gateways
Readers at doors, aisle ends and dock positions produce clean entry and exit events, which are what dwell reporting depends on.
Vehicle detection
Forklift and MHE-mounted receivers detect tags as equipment moves, extending coverage without wiring the whole building.
Smartphone scanning
Phone-based detection for audits, sweeps and lower-traffic areas where fixed hardware is not justified.
Dwell measurement
How long items sit in each zone, which is usually the metric that exposes where flow is breaking down.
Alerts
Raise an exception when an item overstays in a zone, or leaves an area it should not have left.
What intralogistics visibility changes
The gains are rarely one big saving. They are many small recoveries of time and capacity that add up across shifts.
- Less time spent searching for equipment, carriers and tooling
- Shorter dwell in staging and marshalling areas
- Fewer shift start-ups delayed by missing handling equipment
- Evidence of where internal flow stalls, rather than opinions
- Better utilisation of returnable pools held on site
- Faster identification of items that left the building unintentionally
Connecting internal movement to the wider network
The same asset that moves between zones inside a site also leaves it, and the handover between those two worlds is where most systems break.
In GoAndTrack the transition is continuous: a tagged cage detected in dispatch and then at a customer geofence is the same asset with one history, not two records in two tools. That matters for returnable pools, where internal dwell and external dwell are both part of the same cycle time.
It also matters for accountability. When a unit fails to come back, the record shows whether it ever left the building, which lane it went out on, and where it was last detected — the difference between a recovery action and a write-off.
Frequently asked questions
What is intralogistics tracking?
Intralogistics tracking is the visibility of assets, equipment and stock carriers moving inside a site — warehouses, production areas, yards and depots — rather than across the wider supply chain.
Why not use GPS inside a warehouse?
Satellite positioning performs poorly indoors. BLE tags detected by gateways, phones or vehicle units give reliable zone-level visibility in exactly the environments where GPS struggles.
What level of accuracy can I expect indoors?
Zone, area or room level in a standard deployment — enough to know an item is in goods-in, staging or a specific aisle group. Metre-level positioning requires a purpose-built high-density deployment.
What assets are usually tracked inside a site?
Roll cages, totes, trolleys, pallets, tooling, test equipment, handling equipment and work-in-progress carriers — anything that gets searched for or held up when it goes missing.
Does this replace a WMS?
No. A WMS manages stock and tasks; intralogistics tracking tells you where the physical carriers and equipment actually are. The two are complementary, and tracking often exposes gaps between the system record and reality.
How do I start without instrumenting the whole site?
Start with the zones where delay and searching are worst — usually goods-in, staging and dispatch — and add gateways outwards from there once the value is proven.
Related pages
BLE asset tracking
The tag, gateway and detection technology behind most intralogistics deployments.
Read more →Asset tracking
The wider pillar covering devices, technologies and multi-provider estates.
Read more →Returnable asset tracking
Pallets, cages and totes tracked through their full circulation cycle.
Read more →Unpowered asset tracking
Handling equipment, trailers and containers without permanent onboard power.
Read more →Geofencing
Define zones and turn movement into entry, exit and dwell events.
Read more →Platform overview
The map, asset list, alerting and history your team works in every day.
Read more →Make internal movement visible
Book a demo, or pilot zone tracking in one part of your site — goods-in, staging or dispatch — before scaling it out.