Cavea Mesh – Why You Should Consider Mesh Technologies for Efficient Asset Tracking and Process Optimization in Industry.
Modern mesh technologies enable companies to increase productivity, reduce costs, and streamline operations. With precise asset tracking, accurate location tracking, easy integration, and impressive scalability, mesh technology—such as the Cavea Mesh—offers a forward-looking solution for material tracking and automation in industrial intralogistics.
Accurate location information can play a crucial role in efficiently managing tools, materials, and work-in-progress. Cavea Mesh enables improved transparency and control by digitizing processes and automating material tracking.
Let’s now take a look at the reasons for using mesh technology for tracking in industry.
Why Mesh Technology?
Production and plant managers face the challenge of making processes more efficient, optimizing material tracking, and ensuring competitiveness at the same time. Cavea Mesh provides you with the tools to achieve exactly that through data-driven processes and decisions:
Easy installation:
Thanks to the wireless nature of mesh technology, there is no need for extensive construction work, so mesh-based localization systems can be integrated quickly and easily into your existing work environment.
Scalability for Every Need: Mesh technology is a future-proof solution that flexibly adapts to your needs as they grow. You can start by testing the system in small pilot projects and later expand it gradually to larger areas or additional locations without the need for a complete system overhaul. Thousands to millions of assets can be integrated into a mesh network.
Localization:
Standard mesh technologies provide reliable accuracy of approximately 3–5 meters, enabling, for example, the location of material carriers or semi-finished goods.
Reliable Performance in Demanding Environments:
Mesh technology delivers reliable performance even in demanding industrial environments. Communication between all components on the network ensures a very low failure rate and stable operation with minimal maintenance requirements.
Flexible Applications:
Mesh technology offers you virtually limitless applications—both indoors and outdoors. Whether in a production facility, warehouse, or on company grounds—the technology adapts flexibly to your needs and can be easily expanded.
What sets Cavea Mesh apart from other mesh solutions?
Greater precision: With an accuracy of 5 to 7 meters, Cavea Mesh enables seamless tracking and recording of assets, machinery, and materials—even in complex and dynamic environments.
Easy Integration & Industry Standard Compliance:
This plug-and-play solution can be easily integrated into existing systems, such as ERP or WMS platforms, using a modern API.
Cavea Mesh is also fully compatible with the industry standard omlox and can be easily connected to an omlox hub to enable centralized management and seamless integration into industrial ecosystems.
Long battery life and low maintenance costs:
The tags offer a battery life of up to 10 years, reducing maintenance requirements to a minimum. This long service life ensures high availability and reliable performance over an extended period without the need for frequent maintenance. In addition, there are no additional costs for battery replacements or regular system checks.
ROI and Cost Efficiency
The Cavea Mesh solution is cost-effective and helps ensure a quick return on investment. It helps reduce operating costs while increasing efficiency through automated processes. Based on our customers’ experiences, you can achieve a quick ROI in less than 12 months with costs up to 70% lower than those of traditional tracking systems.
Innovation and Digitalization
By combining location data with cloud-based solutions, Cavea Mesh enables seamless material tracking. Automated processes increase efficiency, reduce error rates, and free your employees from manual tasks.
With Cavea’s solutions for process management and order tracking, you maintain full control over your production processes. Track every movement in your production environment and gain valuable insights into physical production flows for better quality control.
Cavea Mesh in Detail
The technology was developed specifically for industrial applications and enables companies to digitize processes, make them more efficient, and thereby reduce operating costs. At the heart of the system is Cavea Mesh, which benefits from significant improvements thanks to our proprietary firmware.
Thanks to this further development, we have optimized the system in various areas to achieve even greater efficiency and performance. A key advantage is our improved battery system, which enables a service life of up to 10 years. This not only extends the service life of the devices but also reduces maintenance requirements and operating costs.
Another advantage lies in the integration of various technologies into our tags. While the original system was designed for mesh communication, we have integrated AOA (Angle of Arrival), Bluetooth, and RFID into our solution. This versatility allows companies to choose exactly the technology that best meets their specific needs—all on a single hardware platform.
By using our software, we also achieve improved localization accuracy. Our solution provides precise positioning within a range of 1 to 3 meters. Thanks to AOA technology, we can even achieve sub-meter localization. This enables even more accurate tracking and monitoring of assets, machinery, and materials.
Another major advantage of our solution is its scalability. Since all the necessary technologies are integrated into a single platform, companies can easily expand their systems and adapt them to different requirements. This integration also optimizes the solution’s use in transportation vehicles, opening up new areas of application.
Benefits for Production and Plant Managers
- Process Automation: Automatic postings replace manual entries by recording material movements or inventory changes and transferring them directly into the system. This reduces human error, saves time, and ensures that all relevant data is immediately available.
- More efficient processes: Search times are reduced, material flow is improved, and production downtime is minimized.
- Increased transparency: Real-time data on the location and condition of assets enables complete control over resources.
- Promoting sustainability: Optimized inventory levels and reduced waste contribute to more environmentally friendly production.
Expected results in numbers:
- 20% increase in productivity: Tasks are completed more quickly thanks to accurate asset data.
- 60% less downtime: Immediate notifications alert production managers to process deviations, which reduces delays and improves availability.
- 12% reduction in buffer zone congestion: Optimize space and minimize inefficiencies in material storage.
- 30% less equipment: Digital tracking prevents loss and improves equipment utilization.
Cross-Industry Applications
From electronics manufacturing to automotive production to logistics—Cavea Mesh offers a universal solution for companies of all sizes and in every industry. The technology enables applications such as:
- Asset Tracking: Locating and Managing Equipment and Materials.
- Process Optimization: Automation and Digitization of Workflows.
- Inventory Management: Real-time monitoring and optimization of inventory levels.
The Cavea Mesh System offers production and plant managers the opportunity to make their processes future-proof. With localization, easy integration, and flexible application options, this mesh technology is the ideal solution for the challenges of modern industry.
Discover how Cavea Mesh can take your material tracking and process optimization to the next level. Contact us today to learn more about our innovative technology!
