Asset tracking

Your expert partner for asset tracking and monitoring, worldwide

From chip to cloud, Nordic Semiconductor can provide you with all the building blocks required to build an asset tracking solution that will stand out in the market, and result in a reliable, optimized, low power solution that can seamlessly track fixed or moving assets indoors and outdoors.

Track much more than just location

Nordic makes it commercially and technologically viable to track manufactured goods, equipment, medicines, vehicles, food, animals, workers, and many other assets. Even low-value, high-volume assets can be tracked efficiently. 

Our solutions also enable monitoring of damage in transit, poor handling, incorrect packing or packaging, exposure to adverse environmental conditions, and much more.

Class-leading end-to-end wireless connectivity solutions for asset tracking

Nordic expertise enables the complete range of asset tracking use cases. As leaders in low power wireless IoT connectivity, we offer a complete portfolio of short-range and long-range solutions required for continuous, global tracking across all environments and continents, including:

  • System-on-Chip (SoC) and System-in-Package (SiP) solutions based on Bluetooth LE, Thread, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT (with integrated GNSS), and DECT NR+
  • Specialist ICs for power management and range extension
  • Companion nRF Cloud Services designed specifically for asset tracking 

Ease of implementation

Nordic’s overriding focus is delivering lowest power consumption and delighting our customers with maximum design simplicity and flexibility, including:

  • Companion hardware and software platforms for straightforward, rapid prototyping and demonstration
  • Trusted SIM partners to enable easy and cost-optimized roaming
  • Knowledgeable and ever-expanding Nordic-certified Design, Solution, and Module Partners to bring extra levels of expertise if required and further accelerate time-to-market
  • World-class tech support

Highlighted applications

Vehicle tracking and fleet management

      

Healthcare

      

Livestock tracking

Stolen vehicle recovery

 

Manufacturing

 

Waste container tracking / management

Shipping and logistics

 

Retail

 

Project resource (workers and tools) tracking

Supply chain and inventory management

 

Tracking children and senior citizens

  Pet tracking
Lost item recovery        

Wireless protocols for asset tracking

Wi-Fi

Nordic Semiconductor is a leading provider of low-power wireless communication solutions, utilizing decades of ultra-low-power wireless expertise to maximize Wi-Fi’s low-power potential in various applications including home automation, smart lighting, and other IoT devices.

Bluetooth Low Energy

Want to add Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) connectivity to your product? We offer high-quality BLE SoCs, Bluetooth Low Energy chips, and BT modules with ultra-low power consumption and protocol stacks, ensuring excellent interoperability.

Thread

We offer the complete solution for building Thread and Matter products; feature-rich SoCs, a qualified mesh stack with samples, and a topology monitor.

Matter

Matter provides a shared foundation on which to build an application. The goal is to have interoperability between devices and ecosystems.

Zigbee

Are you looking to develop a Zigbee product? Advanced multiprotocol SoCs, a qualified mesh stack with samples, certified hardware, and software.

Cellular IoT

Want to add cellular connectivity to your product? We offer the most compact and low power solutions in the market for cellular IoT.

Recommended hardware

Recommended software

nRF Connect SDK

nRF Connect SDK is a common software development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Zigbee and Matter. It supports all our nRF52, nRF53, nRF70 and nRF91 Series wireless devices.

 

Cloud Services

Learn more about nRF Cloud services, optimized for ultra-low-power Nordic Semiconductor devices.