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Combine active RFID and GPS tags for complete visibility.

Indoors, active V-Tag mesh is a strong fit for zone-level location. Outdoors, tracking has always been an expensive problem. Pair V-Tag active tags with V-Tag GPS and you cover both — wide-area outdoor visibility plus hands-free indoor tracking, in one AssetWorx! system.

Affordable GPS

Finally, a GPS tag that's affordable.

Tracking assets across indoor and outdoor spaces has always been a challenge. Active RFID handles indoors well, but outdoor tracking has been expensive — traditional GPS tags carry a recurring, per-tag subscription that put the technology out of reach for most operations.

V-Tag GPS is InfinID's long-range outdoor tag, with coverage of up to nearly four square miles per gateway. It takes the monthly subscription out of the equation, which opens GPS tracking to far more businesses and shortens the return on investment.

Where GPS fits

Built for outdoor tracking.

Any outdoor environment with large areas to cover tends to be a good fit for V-Tag GPS:

Indoor with V-Tag

Indoors, GPS gives out.

V-Tag GPS is excellent outdoors, but indoor spaces rarely get good GPS reception — try it on your phone inside a building and you'll see. That's where V-Tag active mesh takes over.

Setting up indoor location with passive fixed readers means wiring a reader everywhere you want coverage — in a large facility that's a lot of expensive, time-consuming installation. With V-Tag active mesh, you place a small location tag wherever you want awareness and the self-healing Zigbee mesh handles the rest. Assets report their zone or room-level area hands-free, with the mesh settling in about 3 to 4 minutes. It's zone-level location — not RTLS, not real-time, not a beacon-positioning system.

Best of both worlds

One system, indoors and out.

Put the two together and you get continuous visibility across the whole operation — wide-area outdoor coverage from V-Tag GPS, and hands-free zone-level tracking indoors from V-Tag active mesh, all in one AssetWorx! instance.

New to the difference between active and passive? Start with the introduction to RFID tracking.

A real-world example

Indoors and out at an aerospace MRO site.

One aerospace MRO operation needed to track assets both indoors and outdoors — work happened across roughly a dozen buildings, while the surrounding open airfield covered several square miles.

The result is complete visibility — where assets are now and where they've been. Upload custom maps of your indoor and outdoor spaces, then find any asset by typing into a search field to see exactly where it is.

Honest by design: V-Tag active mesh reports zone / room-level location, settling in about 3–4 minutes — not RTLS, not real-time, not a beacon-positioning system. V-Tag GPS provides wide-area outdoor location.
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Complete visibility is within reach.

If you need to track product both indoors and outdoors, V-Tag and V-Tag GPS are a strong fit. Tell us about your site and we'll help you scope it on AssetWorx!.

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