How EBV Elektronik and STMicroelectronics Helps Pozyx Power Industrial RTLS
From manufacturing plants to animal tracking, accurate and reliable location data is transforming industries worldwide.
For large-scale applications, battery life, industrial robustness, and development efficiency are critical, and ST components play an important role in achieving these goals. Pozyx is a Belgian company specializing in ultra-wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth real-time location systems (RTLS). It delivers precise positioning solutions that are trusted by leading manufacturers and logistics operators.
At the time of writing, Pozyx has over 150,000 active trackers in the field, powering real-time location data for thousands of assets across industries. The article explores how Pozyx leverages STMicroelectronics components to create a precise and robust location tracking system, highlighting the specific requirements for tags and anchors.
Tags and Anchors: The Building Blocks of RTLS
In a Pozyx RTLS deployment, tags are small, battery-powered devices attached to assets, equipment, people, or even animals. They communicate with fixed anchors, which are strategically placed in the environment to calculate positions with centimeter-level accuracy. Together, they form the backbone of the Pozyx positioning system.
These two device types have very different requirements. Tags must be compact and energy efficient, while anchors must deliver high performance and reliability to handle multiple communication protocols such UWB and BLE in real-time.
Ultra-Low Power Tags
Pozyx RTLS tags are designed to be lightweight, unobtrusive, and extremely energy efficient. Whether tracking equipment in a factory, pallets in a warehouse, or animals in the field, battery life is a top priority, especially when managing tens of thousands of deployed devices.
The ultra-low-power accelerometers from ST, for example, consume only around 1 μA while active, allowing Pozyx to monitor motion continuously without significantly impacting battery life. This enables smart positioning logic: the tag can detect when an asset starts moving and
automatically increase its update rate, while remaining in deep sleep when stationary.
Combined with the STM32L0 series microcontroller, optimized for ultra-low energy consumption, Pozyx tags achieve multi-year battery lifetimes without compromising on accuracy or sensor integration.
High-Performance Anchors
While tags prioritize efficiency, anchors are designed for performance. Anchors handle UWB and BLE signal processing, precise timing synchronization, and communication between multiple tags to deliver centimeter-level accuracy at scale.
Pozyx anchors leverage STM32F4 series microcontrollers to provide the necessary processing power for real-time ranging calculations, ensuring stable and reliable performance even in industrial environments. Combined with robust ST power management components, the anchors are built to withstand
challenging conditions on the factory floor.
Another critical factor for Pozyx and its integration partners in industry and agriculture is long-term availability of components. Anchors are often deployed as part of larger integrated systems that need to remain operational for many years. By choosing ST components with long product lifecycles, Pozyx ensures that partners can reliably source the same parts well into the future, avoiding costly redesigns and ensuring hardware stability across deployments.
Trusted by Leading Manufacturers Worldwide
Pozyx RTLS solutions are deployed globally by industry leaders who rely on accurate, reliable, and scalable location tracking. Customers include some of the world’s largest manufacturing companies, logistics providers, and system integrators. They use Pozyx technology to track assets, monitor workflows, and improve safety on the shop floor, as well as to manage goods moving between indoor and outdoor environments.
What sets Pozyx apart is the combination of industrialgrade hardware and a powerful RTLS software platform. The hardware delivers ultra-low power consumption and robust performance, while the software transforms raw location data into actionable insights. Customers can optimize processes, automate workflows, and gain real-time visibility into their operations, all from a single platform.
"Our customers depend on us for industrial reliability and long-lasting performance,” says Samuel Van de Velde, Founder and CTO of Pozyx. “With more than 150,000 trackers active in the field, we need to deliver hardware that combines low power consumption with high positioning accuracy. But the hardware is only part of the story. What our customers really appreciate is how our software platform unlocks the full value of indoor and outdoor positioning to improve efficiency and safety across their operations."
Precision Made Practical
By combining Pozyx’s expertise in RTLS with ST’s ultra-low-power components and highperformance microcontrollers, the result is a system that balances efficiency in the tags with performance in the anchors. Backed by a powerful software platform, Pozyx enables customers to transform their operations with scalable, reliable, and high-precision location tracking.
Our trusted partner, EBV Elektronik
We first connected with EBV Elektronik in November 2016, and from the very beginning, they proved to be an invaluable partner. EBV guided us in selecting the right Technical solution by carefully evaluating technical specifications, availability, and longevity. As a startup, we faced logistical hurdles, and EBV helped us implement programmes to overcome those challenges, that allowed us to respond quickly to short-term orders without being limited by
lead times.
Together with EBV technical support they also introduced us to direct contacts at ST, which gave us access to broader, deeper and quicker technical support and helped us integrate our application more effectively.
This experience truly reflects EBV’s commitment to being a trusted partner, offering not just components, but proactive, tailored support that empowers innovation.
