Sensors in. Decisions out.
Intelligence about the assets, materials and people your operations depend on.
Your tags, scanners and sensors already see what happens on the floor. InThing turns those reads into facts your ERP, WMS and asset systems can rely on, as things happen.
Works with the RFID, BLE, UWB and barcode hardware you choose · connects to SAP, ServiceNow, Microsoft and more
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InVaultOffice
Laptop LT-2231 checked back in
IT cage · asset register updated
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InFlowFactory
Job 4471 reached Assembly 2
Traveler read at the station · on schedule
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InVaultHospital
Infusion pump located in Ward 3B
Due for preventive maintenance on Friday
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InStepSite
Muster complete: 42 of 42 accounted for
Evacuation drill · assembly point B
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InFlowWarehouse dock
Pallet received at Dock 3
Purchase order matched · goods receipt posted
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InVaultYard
Forklift FL-07 idle for three hours
Utilization alert sent to the shift lead
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InVaultStore
18 returnable cages back from Store 12
Two still out · reminder sent
See the use case: 18 returnable cages back from Store 12
Outcomes delivered at enterprise scale
1000%+
productivity gain at Cepheid in under 12 months
See the use case: productivity gain at Cepheid in under 12 months
1M+
wreaths tracked in a Christmas season at Continental Floral Greens
Read the story: wreaths tracked in a Christmas season at Continental Floral Greens
3,500
voting machines with a digital chain of custody in Philadelphia
Read the story: voting machines with a digital chain of custody in Philadelphia
99.99%
chain-of-custody accuracy in mission-critical operations
Who we are
InThing makes physical operations visible. We show what is really happening to every asset, material and worker, so the systems you run the business on finally match the floor.
We are a software company and have been doing this since 2013. Every project starts with a problem someone is losing time or money on. Then we pick the tags, readers, software and integrations that fix it, whether that means a handheld scanner, a dock door portal or a robot driving the aisles.
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Products
Ready-made applications for assets (InVault), materials (InFlow) and people (InStep).
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Platform
One platform that reads RFID, BLE, UWB, GPS, barcode and vision data, in our cloud or on your servers.
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Delivery
Pilots in weeks, with integrations that plug into the systems you already have.
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Support
Support around the clock for customers whose operations cannot wait until Monday.
The visibility gap
Your systems know what you own. Not what’s actually happening.
ERP, WMS and asset registers record what was ordered, scheduled and expected. The floor often tells a different story. That gap is where losses, stock-outs and audit findings come from.
- Asset register InVault
- What your systems believeCalibrated microscope · Lab 2 · available
- What is actually happeningLast seen at Dock 3, eleven days ago
- WMS / ERP InFlow
- What your systems believePO 88104 received in full
- What is actually happeningOne case short; the pallet is staged in the wrong aisle
- Shift roster InStep
- What your systems believe42 people on site · all trained
- What is actually happeningThree contractors in the clean room without an escort
Up to 30% of enterprise assets are typically “ghosts”: on the books, missing on the floor. You don’t need another enterprise application to fix that. You need the systems you already own to be fed by what sensors actually see.
Three products · one platform
Purpose-built for the three things every operation depends on.
Each product is a complete application. Together they share one data model, one integration layer and one version of the truth.
InVault
Asset intelligence
Things of value — protected, tracked.
Know where every asset is, what state it is in and who has it, across every site, without walking the floor with a clipboard.
- Asset tracking & lifecycle management
- Audit management & regulatory compliance
- Ghost-asset recovery & exception alerts
- Visual search, Geiger-counter locate & mobile capture
Use cases
InFlow
Material intelligence
Materials in motion — traced, timed.
Follow materials from the dock to the line to the truck. Receipts, inventory, work in progress and shipments are confirmed automatically, with no manual scanning.
- Inbound receiving & dock-to-desk in under 2 hours
- Inventory management & shrinkage detection
- WIP, job & milk-run visibility
- Zero-error shipments & lot traceability
Use cases
InStep
Workforce intelligence
People at work — present, productive, safe.
Know who is on site, where help is needed and that everyone is out when the alarm sounds. Reports stay at team level unless someone with the right role needs more.
- Presence & occupancy
- Productivity & throughput analytics
- Safety, OSHA & compliance zones
- Contractor, visitor & lone-worker tracking
Use cases
Use cases
Start with what you need to see.
Pick the thing that costs you the most time or money. Each page explains the problem, the workflows it improves, the technology that fits and the proof behind it.
InVaultCapital assets & equipmentLab instruments, IT and data-center hardware, fixed assets and voting equipment: found in seconds, audited in minutes.
InStepEmployeesOperators, lab technicians, pickers and hospital staff: presence, mustering and safety zones, with productivity measured in aggregate.
InFlowGoods & consumablesFinished goods, kanban and MRO consumables, lab supplies and consigned stock, counted without walking the aisles.
InVaultPlant tools & MHEMRO tools, tool cribs, calibrated instruments, forklifts, AGVs and yard vehicles: issued, located and accounted for.
InStepTemp workersContractors, vendors and seasonal staff: onboarded, escorted, verified at exit and paid on counts both sides can see.
InFlowParts & raw materialsChemicals, components, drums, rolls and heavy parts: received, issued and traced to the lot, around the clock.
InVaultReturnable itemsPallets, totes, racks, IBCs, dunnage and rental equipment: shipped complete, tracked while away and recovered.
InStepVisitorsVisitors, auditors, inspectors, observers and press: pre-registered, geofenced, time-bounded and checked out automatically.
InFlowShipments & milk runsOutbound loads verified box by box, inbound packages delivered to the right desk, and milk runs tracked loop by loop.
InVaultDocuments & textbooksSensitive files, evidence, election materials and textbooks, with chain of custody and audits measured in days, not weeks.
InFlowJobs & travelersJobs, travelers, job bins and line-side carts followed station to station, with dwell-time alerts before schedules slip.- Something else to track?Tell us about it — most projects start with a problem, not a product.
How it works
Sensors in. Decisions out.
Three software layers turn raw reads into business events you can act on. Nothing gets ripped out; your existing systems simply get better data.
01Your floor
Tag what matters and read it
Barcode, RFID, BLE, UWB, GPS, or a robot that drives the aisles. Each thing gets the sensor that suits it, and readers pick up its signal continuously.
02Trapeze · data refinery
Turn noise into events
Trapeze places every reading on one digital floor plan and works out what it means: received or returned, moved or missing, authorized or not.
03Visium · intelligence & UX
Show people what needs attention
Web dashboards, mobile apps and floor stations put the alert in front of the person who can do something about it, with maps, reports and history.
04EAI-Bridge · enterprise integration
Keep your systems accurate
EAI-Bridge posts each event into SAP, Oracle, Maximo, ServiceNow or your WMS, so one set of readers serves every department at once.
- SignalEPC …4F21 · 23 reads · portal DD-03, antennas 1–4
- EventPallet 3F-22 received · PO 88104 · inbound
- ActionGoods receipt posted to ERP · 1 case short flagged
EAI-Bridge publishes to
- SAP
- Oracle
- IBM Maximo
- ServiceNow
- Microsoft
- WMS
- MES
Customer story
How Cepheid replaced 28,000 touchpoints with one intelligent system.
A molecular diagnostics leader needed to remove manual chemistry-lab workflows without losing traceability. Material requests and replenishment now run continuously in the background.
The productivity gains have been remarkable. What used to require thousands of manual transactions now runs continuously in the background — and the data is more accurate than it’s ever been.
Tom Healy, Director, Logistics Technology and Projects · Cepheid
1000%+
productivity gain across 18 labs
28,000
manual touchpoints eliminated
7,000
manual transactions automated
2,300
labor hours saved in 9 months
Industries
Built for operations where things moving equals money.
Each industry page shows the use cases, workflows and examples that matter to you.
Technology
Capital assets, returnable items and consumables across labs, fabs and data centers.
See technology use cases
Government & Education
Voting equipment, fixed assets, documents and textbooks, with a chain of custody you can prove.
See government use cases
Manufacturing & Logistics
Jobs and travelers, raw materials, shipments, milk runs, tools and the people who move them.
See manufacturing use cases
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Lab equipment, raw materials and consumables with the traceability regulated work demands.
See life-science use cases
The ecosystem
Engineered to cooperate. Built to extend.
Your choice of hardware, systems of record and delivery partner stays yours. Meet the ecosystem
Sensors & infrastructure
HID
Honeywell
Chainway
PAL Robotics
Systems of record we connect to
Epicor
Channel & delivery
Accenture
enVista
Redline Solutions
Connection
From the lab
What we’re testing next.
Robots, new readers and our own AI work. Each note says plainly whether it is research, a prototype, a pilot or in production.
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PrototypeVisium AI: ask your operation anything, in plain English
“Where was forklift 01 last seen?” Visium AI answers from your live data, respects every permission and changes nothing without your approval.…
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PilotAutonomous RFID inventory: a robot that counts the warehouse
We connected PAL Robotics’ STOCKBOT, an autonomous robot with an RFID reader, to the InThing platform. It is now running a pilot…
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PrototypeEvacuation assistance over Bluetooth: knowing everyone is out
We are connecting HID’s BluZone Bluetooth location system to InStep, so presence, mustering and evacuation status come from the badges people already…
Insights
Field notes for operations leaders.
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Blog
SLED Asset Accountability: How to Replace Manual Audit Chaos With Continuous Assurance
Annual hallway audits can’t keep up anymore. Learn how SLED teams borrow continuous assurance from finance and catch asset issues in week…
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Blog
What Is Material Intelligence? Why Knowing What’s in Stock Isn’t Enough
Your inventory count can be perfectly accurate while the line still waits for parts. Material Intelligence shows where materials are, how long…
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Blog
What Is Asset Intelligence and How Is It Different from Asset Tracking?
Asset tracking tells you where something is. Asset intelligence tells you what is happening around it, why it matters, and what to…
Close your visibility gap
Give us 30 minutes and one workflow you wish ran better.
We’ll walk through how InThing would handle it on your floor, with your items and your systems in mind. No slide deck.