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Most RTLS procurement failures are not technical—they are contractual. Teams buy “accuracy” and later discover they needed event correctness in worst zones, with defined latency, retention, and operational handover.<br /> <br /> This template turns RTLS into a set of testable requirements: entities, zones, events, performance budgets, acceptance tests, infrastructure constraints, and deliverables. It is designed to produce quotes that are comparable and projects that can be signed off without endless disputes.

RTLS performance is not defined by accuracy alone. In real deployments, accuracy, latency, and update rate form a coupled system—optimizing one without understanding the others often makes the system worse.<br /> <br /> For safety and operations, the correct specification is event reliability in worst zones, bounded by acceptable latency and a realistic update rate. Systems that look “accurate” on paper but respond too slowly or too noisily fail operator trust.

Industrial RTLS projects fail when teams compare technologies by “accuracy” alone. The real question is where each technology stops being reliable for your required operational events (zone entry/exit, proximity risk, dispatch timing, route compliance).<br /> <br /> Use UWB for deterministic indoor events and safety-critical proximity; use GPS RTK for outdoor yards and wide-area coverage; use BLE when your requirement is zone/presence visibility and ultra-low tag power. The best deployments draw a clear technology boundary and define testable acceptance criteria per boundary.

RTLS (Real-Time Location System) should be defined by the operational outcomes you need—not by the sensor technology.<br /> In industrial sites, the real value is converting location into rule-based events (e.g., unauthorized entry, dwell time, near-miss risk)<br /> and then linking those events to alarms, video, and reporting.<br /> <br /> A practical RTLS design starts by choosing the output level you truly need (presence / 1D / 2D/3D), then selecting the right architecture<br /> (wired UWB, UWB over cellular, wiring-free UWB, or hybrid UWB + GNSS/BeiDou RTK) to match constraints such as wiring, public-network access,<br /> hazardous areas, and indoor–outdoor continuity.