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The machine that left at 2am
Presence and last-seen won't paint a live dot on a map — and shouldn't pretend to. But the moment a tag stops being heard, and the last hub that heard it, is a record worth having. Here's what that boundary honestly catches, and what it doesn't.
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Building Fleet for the field
The office runs Fleet in a browser tab. The field runs on a phone — in the sun, in gloves, in a dead zone — and that's a different app. Notes from building the mobile half of the platform, and the Bluetooth trick that turns every phone into a roaming hub.
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Location isn't utilization
A map full of dots tells you where your equipment is. It tells you nothing about whether any of it is working. Those are two different questions, and most fleets only own hardware that answers the first.
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Tagging the whole yard
The PO is signed and a box of forty tags shows up. Between that box and a dashboard that means anything sits the least glamorous step of the whole deployment — giving every machine an identity the system can trust. Do it wrong once and you'll chase phantom assets for months. Here's how to do it right, and why it isn't the six-month project everyone fears.
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What BLE tracking in a heavy-equipment yard actually looks like
A field note from a gateway install. Rust, forklifts, unexpected RF geometry, and what a 12km datasheet range means in a building made of steel.
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