In today’s fast-paced, globalized world, ensuring continuous visibility throughout the supply chain is more important than ever. Yet, many businesses still face blind spots when goods transition between different modes of transport, warehouses, and logistics partners. These gaps in visibility can lead to delays, lost shipments, and inefficiencies, making it harder to optimize processes and respond proactively to disruptions.
LHIND’s Smart Label, combined with their Locating Engine and Analytics Platform (LEAP), is a breakthrough technology designed to eliminate these blind spots. Unlike traditional tracking solutions that require multiple technologies and tags for full visibility, this ultra-slim, highly adaptable device enables seamless, real-time tracking across every touchpoint, indoors and outdoors, with just one tag.
The Supply Chain Visibility Challenge
Modern supply chains are complex ecosystems that involve multiple stakeholders, from manufacturers and freight carriers to distribution centers and retailers. Each handover in the supply chain represents a potential loss of visibility.
A product may be tracked accurately while inside a factory warehouse but become untraceable the moment it leaves for transportation. Similarly, shipments traveling across borders, oceans, or through multiple distribution centers often disappear from tracking systems until they arrive at the next checkpoint. This lack of real-time insights makes it difficult for businesses to:
• Detect delays and disruptions early
• Optimize transportation routes
• Ensure product integrity, especially for sensitive goods like pharmaceuticals or perishable foods
To overcome these challenges, businesses need a tracking solution that provides seamless continuity—across all environments and logistics stages. That’s exactly what Smart Labels deliver.
How Smart Label Tracking Enables End-to-End Visibility
Unlike traditional tracking methods that rely on fixed infrastructure such as RFID gates, BLE beacons, or UWB anchors for indoor positioning, or GPS-based tracking for outdoor transport, Smart Labels move with the shipment, ensuring continuous tracking across every stage of the supply chain.
While GPS is effective for tracking trucks, ships, and other vehicles, it has limitations when assets move between different transport modes, inside warehouses, or through multi-carrier logistics networks. This is where Smart Labels fill the gap, providing real-time, adaptable tracking without requiring fixed installations.
How Smart Label Tracking Works
Outdoor tracking – Smart Labels use GPS to track assets in transit, such as trucks, ships, and aircraft. However, GPS alone is not always reliable, especially in tunnels, ports, or urban environments. LEAP enhances GPS tracking, ensuring uninterrupted location visibility even when signals fluctuate.
Indoor tracking – When GPS is unavailable, such as inside warehouses, transit hubs, or storage facilities, LEAP uses Wi-Fi signals, cellular networks, and onboard sensors to provide accurate indoor positioning.
Multi-sensor monitoring – Smart Labels do more than track location. They capture temperature, humidity, movement, and shock data, helping businesses protect sensitive shipments and detect handling issues.
Long battery life and sustainability – Designed for low maintenance, Smart Labels operate for up to five years, transmitting up to 30,000 messages while reducing environmental impact.
Because Smart Labels work seamlessly across both GPS-based outdoor tracking and infrastructure-free indoor tracking, they eliminate visibility gaps that traditionally occur when shipments move across supply chain touchpoints.
Use Cases: Smart Label Tracking in Action
Cold Chain Logistics
A pharmaceutical company shipping temperature-sensitive vaccines across international borders needs real-time insights to ensure compliance with cold chain regulations. The Smart Label continuously monitors temperature fluctuations and alerts logistics teams if conditions deviate from safe parameters.
E-Commerce & Last-Mile Delivery
Retailers often lose visibility of shipments once they leave the warehouse. By attaching Smart Labels to individual packages, e-commerce companies can provide customers with real-time updates and improve delivery accuracy.
High-Value Goods & Security
Luxury brands shipping expensive watches or electronics need to ensure that their products remain secure. The Smart Label tracks both location and handling conditions, flagging any unexpected movement or impact that could indicate tampering or theft.
Industrial & Manufacturing Logistics
A factory moving critical machine components across multiple production sites can use Smart Labels to track each part’s exact location, preventing delays and ensuring that production timelines remain on schedule.
The Power of LEAP: Intelligent Supply Chain Visibility
While the Smart Label collects real-time tracking data, LHIND’s Locating Engine and Analytics Platform (LEAP) ensures that businesses can make sense of this information. LEAP acts as the central intelligence hub, allowing users to:
- Monitor all devices and shipments in one place
- Customize tracking parameters based on operational needs
- Integrate seamlessly with existing logistics systems
- Trigger automated alerts when anomalies occur, such as temperature spikes, unexpected detours, or impact events
With LEAP, companies can take proactive measures instead of reacting to delays after they happen.
The Backbone of Seamless Location Data Management
The true power of the Smart Label and LEAP platform comes from its integration with DeepHub®, Flowcate’s omlox-compliant middleware. DeepHub enables:
- Interoperability Across Tracking Technologies – Seamlessly connect Smart Labels with RFID, BLE, UWB, GPS, and other tracking systems for a unified supply chain view.
- Real-Time Data Flow & Processing – Process large volumes of tracking data instantly, ensuring that businesses always have up-to-date insights.
- Scalability & Flexibility – Expand tracking coverage as business needs evolve, without overhauling existing infrastructure.
By leveraging DeepHub, Smart Labels, and LEAP together, businesses achieve unmatched supply chain continuity, reducing inefficiencies and gaining complete visibility into their operations.
The Future of Logistics: Why Smart Label Tracking Matters
Smart Labels provide continuous visibility without the need for multiple tags or fixed infrastructure. Their versatility across indoor and outdoor environments, combined with long battery life and minimal maintenance, makes them a highly efficient tracking solution.
While different tracking technologies will continue to play a role in logistics, Smart Labels offer a compact, scalable approach that integrates seamlessly with LEAP and DeepHub, delivering a more connected and intelligent supply chain.
As logistics operations evolve, solutions that enhance flexibility, reduce complexity, and improve tracking efficiency will define the future of supply chain visibility. Smart Labels are at the forefront of this transformation.
Ready to revolutionize your supply chain?
Want to discover how LHIND’s Smart Labels and LEAP platform, powered by DeepHub®, can transform your logistics operations? Get in touch with our team to learn how this solution fits into your logistics operations.