Technology at InThing
From raw signal to trusted record.
Enterprises run on systems of record that cannot see the physical world. InThing builds the layer that can, and makes it practical to deploy with whichever sensors fit the job.
- The problem
- Systems of record don’t know what is physically happening
- The approach
- Diagnose first, choose the sensor per use case, connect to the systems you already run
- The platform
- Trapeze · Visium · EAI-Bridge
- The products
- InVault · InFlow · InStep, for assets, materials and people
The problem worth solving
Every operation has a visibility gap.
ERP, WMS, MES and asset registers know what was ordered, scheduled and expected. They don’t know, in real time and with accuracy, which asset moved, which kit was picked, who entered the clean room or which pallet left the dock.
| System of record | What it believes | What’s physically true |
|---|---|---|
| Assets | Counted in the register | Missing on the floor, idle, or past calibration |
| Materials | Received in full, per the ERP | Short, staged in the wrong place, or about to run out |
| People | On the roster | In a restricted zone, unaccounted for at mustering, or paid on disputed counts |
That gap is where losses live: ghost assets, stock-outs, wrong shipments, compliance failures and equipment nobody can find.
Our approach
Three principles that shape the technology.
01
Technology-agnostic by design
Barcode, NFC, UHF RFID, Bluetooth LE, LoRaWAN, UWB, GPS and vision all feed the same platform. The thing being tracked decides the sensor, and the platform adapts.
02
Products on a platform
InVault, InFlow and InStep are complete applications that share one data model and one integration layer, so every new use case builds on the last.
03
Integrate
EAI-Bridge keeps existing ERP, WMS, MES and EAM investments accurate, so customers keep the systems they already paid for.
The power of choice
One technology doesn’t fit every thing.
A pallet crossing a yard and a surgical instrument in sterilization don’t need the same sensor. Pick what you are tracking and see which technologies fit, and why.
- Barcode Visual · line-of-sight · low cost Low-cost identity at known checkpoints
- NFC Short-range · secure · handoff Deliberate tap-to-confirm handoffs
- UHF RFID Bulk scan · mid-range · passive Hundreds of items read at once, no line of sight
- Bluetooth LE Zone presence · dynamic · battery Which room or zone, continuously
- LoRaWAN Long-range · low-power · outdoor Large outdoor areas on small batteries
- UWB Precision · cm-level · real-time Exact position where centimeters matter
- GPS Outdoor · global · fleet-scale Assets and fleets beyond your walls
- Vision Camera-based · AI · contextual Context that tags alone cannot give
The architecture
Three cooperating layers.
Sensor data enters as raw signal. Decisions, dashboards and records of action come out the other end.
- Physical worldSenseTags, readers, gateways, anchors, scanners, cameras and robots.
- Layer 01 · TrapezeRefineNormalizes reads from different devices onto one digital floor plan. Pattern recognition and ML models turn noise into events.
- Layer 02 · VisiumActDelivers events to people on web, mobile and floor stations; predictive models flag what is about to go wrong.
- Layer 03 · EAI-BridgeIntegratePublishes trusted events into SAP, Oracle, WMS, MES, IWMS and custom ERPs, concurrently.
- EnterpriseDecideSystems of record that finally match physical reality.
Runs where you need it: on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid or as high-availability clusters. Trapeze · Visium · EAI-Bridge · Security & trust
Business model and IP
How InThing makes money, and what it owns.
We are a pure-play software company and have been since 2013.
Customers pay for software subscriptions, hosted by InThing in the cloud or installed on their own premises. Hardware, local delivery and often the customer relationship come from our partners: Zebra and HID on the device side, resellers such as CDW and Redline Solutions, and system integrators.
The core IP is the event processing in Trapeze, which turns streams of raw reads into events with business meaning, built by a patent-holding team with more than 100 years of combined experience. Engineering sits in Zagreb, Croatia.
- Revenue
- Software subscriptions, cloud or on-premises
- Go to market
- Direct, and with hardware, reseller and integrator partners
- IP
- Proprietary event processing in Trapeze; patent-holding team
- Assurance
- SOC 2 Type 1 report (2023)
Interesting facts
InThing in numbers and moments.
Every figure below is published on inthing.io, in InThing customer material or by a third party.
200M+
items and assets tracked globally
Source: InThing About page
1,600+
projects executed across the globe
Source: InThing About page
23,000+
users, readers and gateways supported
Source: InThing About page
8
sensing technologies on one platform: barcode, NFC, RFID, BLE, LoRaWAN, UWB, GPS and vision
Source: InThing product pages
99.99%
chain-of-custody accuracy in mission-critical operations
Source: inthing.io
50/s
items per second read during Trapeze-powered cycle counts
Source: Trapeze product page
1.5 s
from an RFID read to a processed event posted in SAP
Source: InThing customer reference
1M+
wreaths tracked per Christmas season at Continental Floral Greens, with 100% count accuracy
Source: Zebra customer story
28,000
manual touchpoints eliminated each year at Cepheid, across 18 R&D labs
Source: inthing.io
~17,000
election items under digital chain of custody in Philadelphia, alongside 3,500 voting machines, since November 2020
Source: Zebra customer story
100+ yrs
combined experience in a patent-holding team; pure-play software since 2013, engineering in Zagreb
Source: InThing About page
2021–22
RFID Journal award for Best Implementation in Manufacturing
Source: InThing company timeline
Why now
The physical supply chain changed faster than the systems tracking it.
Tariffs reroute shipments mid-passage, suppliers diversify under pressure, labor costs climb and inventory buffers shrink. Materials still move, but manual scanning and paper trails can’t keep pace.
Labor is the scarcest input
Every manual scan, count and reconciliation competes with productive work. Sensor data removes the touchpoints.
Accuracy is a compliance issue
Auditors expect chain of custody, calibration records and audit trails in real time. Reconstructing them after the fact no longer passes.
Sensors became practical
RFID, BLE and UWB hardware matured. The hard part now is turning their data into decisions people trust, and that is what the platform does.
Proof
Deployed where accuracy is mission-critical.
City of Philadelphia
Digital chain of custody for 3,500 voting machines across 720 polling locations since the November 2020 election.
~17,000election items under chain of custody
Continental Floral Greens
More than 1 million wreaths per Christmas season, counted per worker and station.
99.7%production approval rate
Applied Materials
High-value lab assets found in minutes instead of hours.
60 → 5 minsearch time, with 99% accuracy
Read it elsewhere
What others have published.
Independent and partner sources on InThing deployments.
- Zebra Technologies
- Philadelphia automates tracking of voting equipment and materials
- Zebra Technologies
- Continental Floral Greens: real-time visibility of 1M wreaths
- RFID Journal Awards
- Best Implementation in Manufacturing, won by an InThing deployment (2021–2022)
- Customer press
- Press releases and success stories
Ecosystem
Partnered across hardware, software and delivery.
Device makers, enterprise software platforms and delivery partners we work with. Meet the ecosystem
- Zebra
- HID
- Impinj
- Honeywell
- PAL Robotics
- Microsoft
- AWS
- SAP
- Oracle
- IBM Maximo
- ServiceNow
- Epicor
- Appian
- Power BI
- Accenture
Beyond today’s products
Where the platform goes next.
The InThing Lab is where we test new sensing and automation, from autonomous robots to new ways of querying operations. Every item is labeled research, prototype, pilot or in production.
InThing Lab
PAL Robotics’ autonomous RFID inventory robot in a customer pilot, HID Bluetooth evacuation assistance, HID UWB tracking now in production at Ginosko, and InThing’s own AI engines, each labeled for what it is.
Visit the Lab
Videos
Two-minute demos filmed on a real warehouse floor, from Visium Mobile workflows to evacuation mustering.
Watch videos
Investors & press
Want the deeper story?
Investors, analysts and journalists can reach us directly. We’re happy to walk through the platform, the market, the numbers we can share and the roadmap.