BlueBotics Enables Precise Asset Tracing and Transport Flow Optimization with Launch of ANT Locator

March 10, 2025 – Independent navigating and fleet administration leader BlueBotics – whose ANT navigating innovation drives over 6,000 AGVs and AMRs all over the world – has actually introduced ANT locator, a brand-new and very adaptable lorry monitoring and combined fleet administration option that will certainly be readily readily available from June 2025.

“Based upon our tested lorry placing innovation, ANT locator enables firms to recognize specifically where their forklifts are, and for that reason where their pallets are also, whether inside or outdoors,” discussed Dr. Nicola Tomatis, Chief Executive Officer of BlueBotics. “ANT locator likewise deals with a developing difficulty for interior logistics groups: just how to make sure efficient communications in between hand-operated forklifts and driverless AGVs and AMRs, by making it possible for traffic signal systems for combined lorry kinds, clever communications in pre-defined areas, and the incorporated tracking of all automobiles.”

ANT locator is natively incorporated with BlueBotics’ prominent ANT web server AGV/AMR fleet supervisor. It can likewise be incorporated with a client’s existing WMS, MES, ERP, or fleet administration system. More attachments are likewise readily available, as an example for exterior usage, and to take care of the monitoring of various other mobile properties – such as pallet jacks, or personnel – within shared rooms.

Created to fulfill the requirements of AGV/AMR and hand-operated forklift manufacturers, third-party software program carriers, and finish individuals alike, ANT locator’s capability extends 3 crucial usage instances:

While automatic automobiles like AGVs are a tried and tested efficiency booster, running these in the very same rooms as hand-operated vehicles is an obstacle, specifically on complicated, constrained websites. Just how can move circulations be enhanced? That has right-of-way? Just how can efficiency-killing predicaments and crashes be prevented?

With ANT locator, the real-time works with of hand-operated vehicles are incorporated straight right into BlueBotics’ ANT web server AGV fleet supervisor. This exact positioning information makes it possible for the software program to immediately take care of communications in between automatic automobiles, hand-operated vehicles, and also human personnel – as an example, using using traffic signal systems – aiding firms to utilize their room as wisely and securely as feasible.

For product taking care of to run effectively, understanding the exact place of every pallet is crucial. Yet while the drop-off factors of automatic automobiles are pre-programmed, understanding the exact place of every handbook vehicle’s drop-off is much from assured.

With ANT locator incorporated right into every hand-operated vehicle, the exact placements of these automobiles can be interacted constantly to a firm’s existing WMS/logistics software program, permitting product handling groups to map the specific place of every haul – at pick-up, at drop-off, and all over in between.

Among the largest obstacles to enhancing forklift usage is not understanding just how they are presently being made use of. Which circulations are most usual? Are vehicle drivers utilizing one of the most reliable courses?

The exact positioning information and analytics that ANT locator products enable firms to enhance their hand-operated vehicle moves, by comprehending and enhancing their use based upon real-world understandings. No asking, no seeing, no thinking– simply track, examine, readjust and suggest.

German storage facility administration software program distributor, SEP Logistik, is a very early adopter of ANT locator. “We make use of ANT locator in our RELAG-System to identify the specific placement of each forklift. The system, which offers a real-time 3D aesthetic of the storage facility to the driver, after that can reveal them one of the most reliable course to reach their target place. ANT locator also allows us to provide this capability outdoors,” discussed Markus Fischbacher. “On one job as an example, many thanks to the performance gets attained, we allowed a sheet steel manufacturer to decrease the variety of forklifts they needed by 20%. With ANT locator inside our RELAG-System, our consumers can delight in better intralogistics openness and traceability, without requiring to leave the workplace.”

Tomatis of BlueBotics ended, “For producers and storage facility drivers wanting to enhance the performance of their interior logistics, ANT locator is a fantastic fit. It offers the precise lorry placements and use information they require to maximize vehicle circulations, track pallets, take care of combined lorry communications and boost on-site security.”

Security can be more improved with extra crash evasion options from Ubiquicom, which ZAPI team got in October 2024. These options consist of distance sensing units that can be incorporated right into ANT web server to develop extra clever actions associated with the procedure of hand-operated automobiles, AGVs, and AMRs. Alternatively, ANT locator has the ability to user interface effortlessly with Ubiquicom’s variety of ‘Forklift Community’ options, making it possible for ZAPI team to fulfill the requirements of every interior logistics and storage facility administration group.