Trapeze · Sensor Data Refinery
Raw reads in. Unambiguous events out.
Trapeze knows the difference between a phased-array RFID reader, a Bluetooth gateway and a UWB anchor, and normalizes their readings onto a single digital floor plan. Then it decides what actually happened.
What Trapeze does
From device middleware to real-time actions.
01 / Connect
Device middleware
Supports most industrial readers already. New devices, event types and even proprietary integration methods are added quickly.
RFID · BLE · UWB · GPS
02 / Correlate
Event processing engine
Detects moving situations involving people or things (presence, absence, exact location, temperature) and calculates complex events from simple ones.
Temporal correlation
03 / Contextualize
Operational meaning
Off-the-shelf modules interpret common events: authorized or unauthorized, stock transfer or check-out, receiving or return.
Standard modules
04 / Publish
Real-time actions
Triggers alerts and actions as situations happen, and publishes events to Visium data services or to enterprise applications through EAI-Bridge.
Real-time
In practice
Watch a dock door think.
Select a point on the scene to see what each layer does.
The dock door reads every tag
A fixed RFID portal captures pallet and case tags as they cross the threshold. Nobody scans anything, and no line of sight is needed.
Direction as well as presence
Trapeze correlates the read sequence across antennas, discards stray reads from the neighboring door, and decides that this is an inbound receipt rather than an outbound return.
The right person sees the exception
The receiving lead gets a Visium alert on mobile: the purchase order is one case short, and the truck has not left yet.
ERP updates itself
EAI-Bridge posts the goods receipt and the discrepancy to ERP and the WMS. Nobody re-keys anything.
Illustrative scenario.
Where it changes operations
Six places it pays off.
Receiving
Automated dock doors that record receipts as goods arrive.
Kanban
On-time replenishment triggered by real consumption.
Auditing
Touchless audit portals for kits, containers and sealed bags.
Inventory & cycle counts
Rapid counts without line-of-sight scanning, at up to 50 items per second.
Shipping
Zero-error portals and dock doors that verify every order.
Hazardous materials
Automated compliance checks and alerts.
Deployment
Highly available by design.
Trapeze 3 runs in configurations from a single server for pilots and non-critical use cases to distributed services across multiple servers for high-availability installations.
- Architecture
- Scalable, fault-tolerant cluster; event and temporal correlation; real-time publications
- Devices
- Most industrial RFID readers out of the box; BLE, UWB and GPS sources; new sensors added as needed
- Integration
- Consumes business data and publishes events or actions to Visium or enterprise applications such as SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow and IBM Maximo via EAI-Bridge
- Languages
- Built-in support for most languages
- Hosting
- Managed by InThing in the cloud (Azure), on-premises, or as a high-availability cluster
Trapeze Companion
When a fixed reader doesn’t fit, carry one.
Trapeze Companion is a mobile app that turns a handheld RFID reader into a moving read point for Trapeze. Use it in places where a permanent portal would cost too much, or where the read point has to travel with the work.
In practice: production carts scanned at each manufacturing step, with results posted to SAP; large shipments scanned at the dock and visible live in monitoring and the ERP.
- Pairs with Zebra RFID handhelds on Android
- Every scan is tied to a location: a default one, or one read from a location tag on the spot
- Reads stream to Trapeze in real time and follow the same rules as fixed readers, so alerts, events and ERP updates work the same way
- Operators sign in; each device is licensed individually
Have readers already? Start with what you have.
Trapeze connects to most industrial readers, so many projects begin with existing infrastructure. Tell us what’s installed.