Ubudu
Headquarters: France
Region(s) Served: APAC, EMEA
Ubudu, founded in 2011, is a French technology company with offices in Paris, Warsaw, Hong Kong and Singapore. The company develops and markets IOT solutions designed to improve the operational performance and safety of companies and organizations. The complete solutions, based on UWB, BLE and/or LoRa technologies enable location tracking, geofencing, distance measurements and data analysis at low costs to eliminate considerable time wasted on unnecessary movement as well as improve the safety of operators.
Customers of Ubudu RTLS see an average 70% reduction in time spent searching for tools, equipment, and work-in-progress (WIP) and can get notified in real-time of any delay in the production.
Ubudu RTLS is also used to get real-time visibility on logistics flows in order to optimize equipment utilization rates and ensure efficient allocation of resources.
Deployed in more than 5,000 sites in 35 countries, Ubudu's solution already helps save more than 15,000 working hours per day for its customers in Manufacturing, Logistics, Defense, Restauration and Healthcare.
More recently, Ubudu has launched two new solutions based on UWB and BLE to help improve safety at the workplace:
- Ubudu Social Distancing Assistant to prevent the spreading of COVID-19 in the workforce
- Ubudu Safety Zone to prevent accidents between machines and pedestrians as well as control better access to hazardous areas
Products
Ubudu RTLS
Ubudu Real-time locating system (RTLS) is a complete, hybrid and open system used to track the location of objects or people in real time:
- RTLS Tags: fixed on assets
- Anchors & beacons: process the signal emitted by the tags
- Location Engine: configure devices, calculate positions in real time, system supervision
- RTLS Applications: End-user interface to search for an asset location using filters, see real-time positions of assets, generate real-time alerts, replay historical positions, analyze flows using a customisable dashboard and pair asset information to the tags.
Benefits:
- Saving time searching for assets by seeing their real-time positions
- Getting real-time visibility on the production chain by getting real-time alerts when a work order moves from one workstation to another.
- Identifying bottlenecks and improving workflows by analyzing movement of assets
- Improving equipment utilization rate by analyzing equipment movement data
Ubudu Social Distancing Assistant
Ubudu Social Distancing Assistant helps companies keep their staff safe from viruses by informing them in real-time of a risk of contamination and by doing contact tracing.
- SDA Tags: worn by employees to let them know when there is a risk of contamination
- SDA App: configure tags and receive alerts
- SDA Dashboard: analyze data for contact tracing purpose and to understand the risk level of having a cluster
Features:
- Short range alarm (flash and vibration)
- Sending of remote alerts
- Audit of the contamination chain
- Privacy protection (RGPD)
- 10cm accuracy
- No infrastructure
- Adjustable distance
- Rechargeable battery
Ubudu Safety Zone
Ubudu Safety Zone helps companies improve worker safety in dangerous sites by preventing machine-human collisions.
- Safety Tags: worn by workers and mounted on the machines
- Safety App: group tags, receive alerts and generate sound / visual alarm
- Safety Dashboard: analyze data to understand the risk level of having accidents on site
Features:
- Staff Alert through LED & vibration
- Machine Operator Alert through Smartphone / Tablet
- Recording of alerts for audit of collision risks
- 2 types of Tags: 1 for human and 1 for machine
- Privacy protection (GDPR)
- Down to 10cm accuracy
- No cabled infrastructure needed
- Adjustable distance from 5 to 12m
- Rechargeable battery through USB-C
