Booking Q4 '26 / Q1 '27

Smart Locating & Sensing Systems (Switzerland) · Swiss BLE Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) & Industrial IoT

From Raw CAD to Global Enterprise Pre-Orders: Visualizing Sub-Meter Industrial IoT for a Swiss RTLS Leader.

How we replaced fragmented 2D datasheets with an 11-device photorealistic hardware system, two evaluation kit launch films, and a spatial 3D warehouse explainer—enabling global sales teams to demonstrate 0.3m RF accuracy and secure enterprise pilot orders before physical freight shipped.

Client SectorSwiss Industrial IoT · Sub-Meter BLE AoA & RTLS Hardware
Commercial Scope11-Device 3D Catalog, 2 Evaluation Kit Launch Films, 3-Zone Spatial Explainer
Engineering IngestMechanical .STEP / .IGES CAD Assemblies · Millimeter-Accurate Retopology
3D & Motion PipelineBlender (Cycles / PBR Shaders / Freestyle SVG) · Adobe After Effects · Illustrator
Asset Deliverables4K Studio Turntables, Transparent PNGs, Orthographic Vector Blueprints, 1080p60 Films
Deployment StatusPhases 1 & 2 Live in Global Docs & Distributor Portals · Phase 3 Spatial Animatic Complete
Engagement Context & Production Scope

Partnering with a Swiss industrial RTLS manufacturer serving Fortune 500 automotive plants, automated logistics hubs, and hospital networks, GlyphicX was commissioned to overhaul their technical sales enablement across three pillars:

  1. 11-Device 3D Hardware & Blueprint System: Deployed globally across technical datasheets, distributor portals, and installation manuals.
  2. Two Commercial Evaluation Kit Films: Shipped ahead of overseas freight to drive enterprise pilot pre-orders in Europe and North America.
  3. 3-Zone Isometric Warehouse Architecture & Animatic: Delivered as a full 3D industrial environment and spatial motion animatic to demonstrate indoor-to-outdoor RF handoffs during enterprise sales briefings.
Interactive 3D Motion Showcase
Multi-Zone Facility Walkthrough (Dark Industrial Aesthetic)
Silent 3D Loop · 1080p

End-to-end 3D spatial walkthrough connecting Warehouse 1, Warehouse 2 steel racks, and the outdoor truck loading yard in high-contrast industrial lighting.

01 — The Brief & Hardware Challenge

Making invisible industrial radio protocols tangible.

Industrial RTLS procurement differs fundamentally from consumer electronics. Enterprise buyers—such as logistics directors, automotive plant architects, and hospital operations leads—evaluate hardware on physical ruggedness, power topology (PoE vs. DC), mounting flexibility, and exact positional accuracy. Flat 2D datasheets and generic supplier photos left enterprise buyers uncertain and slowed down sales cycles.

01

Proximity vs. Sub-Meter AoA

Standard BLE RSSI measures proximity within several meters, whereas Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) antenna arrays triangulate microsecond radio phases to achieve sub-meter (0.3m) precision. We needed to translate these abstract mathematical principles into crystal-clear spatial 3D visuals.

02

Mechanical Installation Clarity

Facility engineers need to know exact mounting constraints: ceiling drop-tile brackets, wall antenna angles, PoE backhaul cable glands, and IP67 weather-sealing. We built orthographic CAD drawings and photorealistic architectural contextual renders.

03

Evaluation Kit Launch Velocity

Before shipping physical hardware kits across Europe and North America, the client required commercial launch films showing unboxing, plug-and-play PoE setup, environmental telemetry (temperature, humidity, air quality), and cloud dashboard integration.

02 — Phase 1: Hardware Catalog & Technical Drawings

11 devices. Zero physical photography. One unified Tier-1 hardware system.

Working directly from raw mechanical STEP/CAD files across 5 gateways and 6 industrial beacons, we engineered a unified 3D asset library—calibrating injection-molded matte polymers, weatherized metals, and millimeter-accurate orthographic blueprints. The result eliminated costly physical studio shoots and gave product marketing a cohesive catalog ready for Fortune 500 technical due diligence.

Industrial outdoor LTE gateway studio render
Outdoor LTE Gateway · Weatherized PBR Texturing

LEF-3 Industrial Cellular Gateway

Visualized the IP67 weather-sealed chassis, dual high-gain LTE/BLE antennas, and recessed screw terminals—giving infrastructure buyers instant confidence in outdoor yard durability without needing a physical sample.

Indoor AoA sub-meter locator studio render
Indoor Sub-Meter Locator · Port & LED Telemetry Detail

LON-2 BLE AoA Locator

Highlighted the low-profile ceiling enclosure, PoE backhaul routing, USB expansion access, and illuminated multi-state diagnostic LEDs so IT architects can verify ceiling-grid compatibility at a glance.

Outdoor weatherproof AoA locator studio render
Outdoor AoA Locator · Mechanical Seal Precision

LOF-2 Weatherproof AoA Array

Detailed the heavy-duty mounting flanges, waterproof PoE RJ45 cable glands, and extreme-temperature polymer housing to eliminate installation guesswork for field contractors.

Industrial asset tracking beacon studio render
Heavy-Duty Asset Beacon · Micro-Surface CAD Fidelity

TEF-1 Industrial Pallet Beacon

Captured the ultrasonic-welded moisture seam, reinforced screw/strap mounting tabs, and matte impact-resistant casing—proving rugged 5-year pallet survivability in high-wear logistics environments.

Installation Architecture

Ceiling Drop-Tile & Wall Bracket Mounting

To eliminate guesswork for electrical contractors and systems integrators, we staged each locator in realistic architectural mounting environments—illustrating flush ceiling clip-ins, cable drops, and wall bracket antenna orientation.

Ceiling and wall mounting installation architecture
Engineering Blueprints

Orthographic CAD Dimension Blueprints

Extracted directly from engineering CAD geometry to guarantee 1:1 dimensional fidelity—annotating exact millimeter footprints (240mm × 240mm × 60mm), port clearances, LED telemetry zones, and VESA mounting patterns for enterprise spec sheets.

Orthographic CAD engineering line drawings and dimension blueprints
03 — Phase 2: Commercial Launch Films

Two evaluation kit launch films engineered to drive pre-freight pilot orders.

In enterprise IoT, sales velocity depends on getting evaluation kits into the hands of plant engineers. Before physical inventory cleared overseas freight, we scripted and rendered two turnkey commercial films—for the BLE RSSI Kit and the BLE AoA Sub-Meter Kit—proving out-of-the-box deployment speed and multi-sensor ROI in under 90 seconds.

Turnkey Unboxing & Kit Architecture

Engineered the complete physical unboxing experience in 3D—from outer packaging collateral to precision-molded foam inserts housing gateways, PoE injectors, and wearable tags—showing buyers a cohesive, enterprise-ready hardware kit.

Multi-Sensor Telemetry Visualization

Integrated dynamic spatial HUD callouts directly over the physical beacons to visualize invisible data streams—demonstrating how a single tag transmits ambient temperature, humidity, air quality, and barometric pressure alongside real-time coordinates.

Zero-Friction Cloud Onboarding Proof

Bridged the gap between physical hardware and software ROI by compositing live floor-plan heatmaps, locator coverage cones, and cloud dashboard UI—proving to IT teams that the system initializes in minutes, not weeks.

Angle of Arrival Sub-Meter Evaluation Kit 3D tabletop unboxing with sculpted foam insert and sensor telemetry

Sub-Meter AoA Evaluation Kit tabletop unboxing film frame, featuring sculpted foam insert, 3x ZENIX LON-2 locators, PINIX TOW-1 asset tags, and TOK-1 smart badges.

04 — Phase 3: Spatial Warehouse Explainer

A 3-zone spatial pitch system: visually justifying full-facility RTLS deployments.

Enterprise buyers often struggle to understand why a facility requires multiple locator topologies. We architected a modular, three-zone isometric industrial facility—spanning inbound staging, high-density steel racking, and outdoor fleet yards—giving enterprise sales reps a visual blueprint to upsell hybrid indoor/outdoor hardware architectures.

Warehouse 1 dark isometric cutaway with RF proximity scanning beams
Zone 01 · Inbound Staging (BLE RSSI)

Forklift Collision Avoidance & Floor-Level Asset Staging

Illustrates the cost-effective baseline of 2.4 GHz BLE RSSI beacons on incoming pallets and worker badges. As forklifts navigate staging lanes, real-time RF safety perimeters pulse dynamically—showing EHS and operations directors how proximity telemetry prevents floor collisions and automates inbound manifest logging.

Zone 02 · High-Density Storage (Sub-Meter AoA)

Solving Multipath Metal Interference Across Vertical Racks

Visually makes the business case for upgrading from standard RSSI to ceiling-mounted Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) arrays. In dense, radio-reflective steel racking where standard Bluetooth signals bounce and fail, our spatial beams demonstrate how AoA resolves vertical Z-axis ambiguity—pinpointing individual bins down to 30 centimeters.

Warehouse 2 multi-tier steel rack tracking with sub-meter locators
Outdoor logistics yard and truck fleet transit handoff
Zone 03 · Logistics Yard & Transit (BLE-to-LTE Handoff)

Continuous Chain-of-Custody from Loading Dock to Highway

Eliminates the "blind spot" at the warehouse bay door. As tagged pallets move from indoor PoE locators onto outbound freight trucks, the animation visualizes the automated telemetry handoff to weatherproof pole-mounted gateways and in-cab GPS/LTE cellular backhaul—proving uninterrupted global supply chain visibility.

05 — Value & Strategic Impact

Compressing the enterprise hardware sales cycle across Europe and North America.

In industrial IoT, enterprise pilots stall when facility engineers cannot verify mounting constraints or visualize RF coverage. By turning raw CAD assemblies into deployment-ready 3D documentation and launch films, GlyphicX armed sales reps and distributors to pre-sell evaluation kits months ahead of physical manufacturing logistics—delivering 11 unified device kits, 2 commercial launch films, and 3 spatial warehouse zones from a single 3D pipeline.

Catalog Unification

11-Device Single Design System

Standardized studio lighting, calibrated PBR plastic and metal shaders, and orthographic CAD diagrams across all 11 devices provided a coherent, Tier-1 visual presence.

Commercial Acceleration

Evaluation Kit Launch Velocity

3D unboxing walkthroughs and telemetry UI animations gave systems integrators total clarity on out-of-the-box setup, driving pre-orders ahead of physical overseas freight.

Spatial Education

Demystifying Complex RF Physics

The isometric warehouse animatics gave enterprise sales reps an intuitive visual tool to explain the ROI and accuracy jump from basic proximity beacons to sub-meter AoA arrays.

Technical Specification — Production Pipeline & Asset Architecture

Built from raw mechanical CAD. Engineered for multi-channel reuse.

Every 3D asset in this engagement was architected as a modular, reusable component—allowing the client’s engineering and marketing teams to generate print manuals, distributor web portals, and commercial launch videos from a single master geometry library.

  • CAD Ingest & Geometry Normalization: Direct import of manufacturer .STEP and .IGES mechanical assemblies. Hard-surface retopology, bevel normalization, and sub-millimeter dimensional verification inside Blender.
  • Material & Shader Calibration: Custom physically based rendering (PBR) node networks simulating injection-molded matte ABS/PC polymers, anodized aluminum mounts, weatherized IP67 rubber gaskets, and emissive multi-state telemetry LEDs.
  • Orthographic Blueprint Engine:Automated technical line-art extraction via Blender Freestyle & SVG Vector Engine, composited with exact millimeter callouts (240mm × 240mm × 60mm), VESA mounting tolerances, and port clearances in Adobe Illustrator.
  • Motion & Telemetry Compositing: 3D camera choreography and multi-pass EXR lighting renders in Blender Cycles, paired with 2.5D spatial RF signal propagation, environmental HUD telemetry overlays, and cloud UI simulations in Adobe After Effects.
  • Master Delivery Formats:16-bit transparent .PNG & .WebP hardware matrices, scalable .SVG / .PDF engineering diagrams for print datasheets, and mastered .MP4 (H.264 / ProRes) commercial launch films.

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