Simplify Manual Vehicle Tracking with LiDAR-Based RTLS Integration
From Manual to Digital: Unified Intralogistics Control
NAiSE announces a new compatibility with NODE Robotics, a fellow Stuttgart-based expert in intralogistics solutions. This collaboration brings NODE’s robust RTLS solution, NODE.tracking, into both the NAiSE Intralogistics Platform and the NAiSE Forklift Guidance System, enabling efficient, real-time localization of manual vehicles such as forklifts and tugger trains—fully integrated and immediately usable.
Embedded Integration for Seamless Operations
As of now, NODE.tracking is embedded within the NAiSE Intralogistics Platform, which serves as a manufacturer-independent fleet, traffic, order and warehouse manager. The integration transmits precise position data from NODE.tracking as VDA 5050-compliant messages, ensuring plug-and-play compatibility. This enables centralized visibility and coordination of mixed fleets, supporting real-time decision-making and optimized intralogistics processes. In addition, the integration into the NAiSE Forklift Guidance System extends these capabilities to manually operated forklifts—creating a unified digital infrastructure for both autonomous and manual transport systems.
Strategic Alignment and Shared Vision
Both companies emphasize the strategic alignment of this collaboration. Shared roots at ARENA2036 and a common understanding of user-centric, scalable software offerings laid the foundation for this collaboration. While taking different technological paths, NODE Robotics and NAiSE share the same goal: to simplify and strengthen intralogistics through flexible, hardware-agnostic solutions. By combining their respective capabilities, they now offer a joint solution that can be efficiently used by customers.
Experts’ Perspective:
“With NODE.tracking now part of both the NAiSE Intralogistics Platform and Forklift Guidance System, customers can track their manual vehicles reliably and cost-effectively—without the need for additional infrastructure,” adds Philipp Schnattinger, Chief Robotics Officer at NODE Robotics. “Before this partnership, we had already gained valuable experience deploying our solution with manually operated forklifts at a major automotive customer. That project played a key role in refining our hardware and software to the point where it’s now ready for broader, scalable use. Together with NAiSE, we’re excited to make this retrofit solution easily available to new customers—so manual vehicles can be tracked with precision and minimal effort.”
Raphael Kusumoto, Chief Technology Officer at NAiSE. says, „Our collaboration with NODE Robotics combines our strengths to deliver a fully integrated intralogistics solution. By integrating their LiDAR-based RTLS into the NAiSE Intralogistics Platform, we enable real-time tracking and seamless coordination of forklifts and tugger trains, creating a smarter, connected intralogistics ecosystem.”
Advanced, Marker-Free Localization
NODE.tracking delivers accurate, marker-free localization with sub-10 cm precision. Built on NODE.localize—NODE’s industrial-proven localization software used in over 1,500 mobile robots—it ensures continuous tracking and autonomous re-localization, even after power interruptions. The system is hardware-agnostic and retrofit-friendly, allowing seamless integration into existing vehicle fleets without the need for physical markers or costly infrastructure upgrades.
By integrating NODE.tracking into the NAiSE Intralogistics Platform and Forklift Guidance System, users gain unified visibility across both manual and autonomous fleets, reducing complexity and improving responsiveness. This partnership marks a significant step forward in enabling scalable, cost-effective real-time asset tracking within industrial intralogistics.
About NAiSE:
Automated Intralogistics – Do It Yourself. NAiSE delivers an all-in-one, manufacturer-independent intralogistics platform designed to provide full control over material flow operations. Our unified system architecture combines Fleet, Traffic, Order, and Warehouse Management into a single intelligent solution—enabling end-to-end digitalization and automation. Built on the core values of transparency, flexibility, and simplicity, the NAiSE Intralogistics Platform empowers companies to independently configure and optimize their intralogistics processes. Mobile robots and human-operated vehicles are seamlessly coordinated in real time, ensuring clear visibility, adaptable workflows, and easy system operation. From task orchestration and routing to inventory and order handling, NAiSE helps intralogistics teams unlock peak performance—transparent, flexible, and simple.
About NODE Robotics:
Efficient operations and growth depend on solutions that simplify mobile robotics. At NODE Robotics, we develop reliable, flexible, and seamlessly integrable software that eliminates the limitations of conventional systems. With our proven tools for navigation, localization, and fleet management, businesses reduce downtime, streamline processes, and achieve measurable success. We make mobile robots easy to use.