UWB RTLS is an ultra-wideband real-time location system: fixed anchors time short radio pulses from tags on people, vehicles and assets to calculate their positions continuously. In factories it is used for forklift-pedestrian collision warnings, speed zones on compatible forklifts, locating work in progress, tools and pallets, measuring vehicle utilisation, and accounting for people during an evacuation. Its precision suits safety alerts at short range, but it needs a network of anchors across the covered area and only locates items that carry a working tag.
Safety and operations can share one infrastructure: the anchors that drive proximity alerts can also feed utilisation and asset reports, which helps the cost case. Check that tag battery life, charging routines and anchor maintenance fit your shift pattern, how the system copes with metal-dense areas, and whether safety functions keep working if the network or server is down.
Real-time location systems for forklift safety covers the safety use, and proximity detection technologies compared sets UWB against other methods.