The new technology platform can be embedded in an existing design or operate as a stand-alone unit, with options to compute the location locally or transmit the information to a remote system which can process the data before visualising it on a smartphone app.
For its part, Honeywell has been approved to provide the Soviet ministry the technical data supporting its TDC 3000 system, a microprocessor-based digital electronic system for industrial process controls.
"In reality, we have issues within the supply chain because there are several systems out there, and we have breaks within the dataprocess, " said Reinhold Wawrzynek, chief executive of Mobiwork AG, a Munich-based system-software provider in the textile industry.