Benefits

No single point of failureUbisense sensors create and distribute their own timing signals without needing a ‘hub’ or ‘SDP’ like other Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS), and so, unlike other RTLS systems, Ubisense has no single point of failure.

Ubisense sensor systems are organized into cells. Ubisense can be configured so that each cell can still operate even if one of its sensors is destroyed, or all the sensors in another nearby cell are destroyed.

Scalable cellular architectureUbisense Location Platform scales seamlessly from a laptop to a multi-CPU cluster. Exactly the same software can be run on a single machine, for software development or demos, or deployed across a cluster to support huge installations generating tens of thousands of location events per second.

The Ubisense software architecture is cellular, making it easy to assign services to cluster members for optimal resource usage. All Ubisense services are crash tolerant making them suitable for operation with any cluster management system (basic service management support comes as standard).

Ubisense services may be physically located hundreds of kilometres from the sensors - connected via the customer’s corporate network.

Continuous health monitoringUbisense services include tag health and battery status monitoring, and can be configured to generate a warning event when a battery needs changing.

Ubisense can supply logging and analysis tools for continuous monitoring of every single location event and comes with Internet tunnelling support, for remote monitoring and maintenance across the world.

System-wide programmabilityAll Ubisense hardware including tags can be re-programmed remotely so that it is easy to incorporate the latest improvements in any system component without having to plan for extensive downtime.

Cross-platform operationUbisense services all run on Windows and Linux as standard, and have been proven to work well with industry-standard virtualization systems such as VMWare and Veritas.

Wired and wireless network-friendlyUbisense sensors and software can be configured to use various networking options and wireless channels in order to meet site requirements. Ubisense has extensive experience in using, and co-existing with, production wired and wireless networks.

Andreas Lehner, responsible project manager at BMW: “All the project objectives have been met on time and within the planned budget. From the standpoint of value creation, the project is a complete success.”