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Ubisense eyes global success

With the Internet of Things set to fundamentally change the way businesses function, one growing software business, Ubisense, is ahead of the curve, integrating live location feeds into everyday business operations.

Based in Cambridge, UK, Ubisense is an innovator of Enterprise Location Intelligence products and solutions. Its suite of products accurately captures and interprets data from mobile tags via a network of base stations, arming its customers with superior operational visibility. These enable businesses across the high value manufacturing, utility and telecommunications sectors to make significant improvements in efficiency.

Factories employing this technology have since been dubbed ‘smart factories’ and Paul estimates that already 4% of the world’s cars are now built with the assistance of an Ubisense solution. This represents five of the ten largest global car manufacturers, and the number of deployments is increasing every year.

Ubisense has experienced phenomenal growth since it launched in 2002 with 500 customers across 50 countries, and with 95% of what it builds being exported worldwide.

With a variety of blue-chip companies in fast-moving, high-value industries as customers, Ubisense must be in a position to fulfil orders as quickly as possible. “If these companies need additional hardware to support their own increased production, we need to make sure it gets there on time,” says Paul. “This is especially true in the manufacturing sector where, more often than not, delays to production are so costly that they are simply not an option. That’s why FedEx has played such an integral role to our global success.”

To support this growth, Ubisense first approached FedEx Express in 2004 due to its global reach and reputation for reliability and the relationship has grown into an integrated partnership moving thousands of packages all across the globe. These packages range from large palletised shipments containing everything required to deploy a system across a complete manufacturing facility, down to the smaller urgent packages that ensure these systems keep running 24/7 to support ongoing production.

As Paul explains, “FedEx is extremely supportive and helpful – facilitating last minute shipments when needed. Their advanced customer technology tools and global customs expertise is central making sure this happens every time.”

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