How Bluetooth is creating a more productive world
Productivity with purpose
Industry is the engine that drives the world forward. From the shop floor to the shipping dock, from farms and fields to global supply chains, Bluetooth® is the catalyst that sparks industrial transformation, helping manufacturers, growers, and logistics leaders turn insight into action, automation into advantage, and resilience into reality.
By tracking critical assets, preventing downtime before it happens, and enabling operations to run smarter and safer for the people who keep them moving, Bluetooth technology empowers industry to deliver more while using less, fueling responsible growth and global progress.
Source: ISM World, 2024
Source: ABI Research, 2025
Visibility in the moment. Insights for the long run.
Bluetooth® technology delivers real-time visibility across factories, farms, and supply chains to turn every data point into actionable intelligence. With instant insight into inventory, movement, and status, Bluetooth enables smarter decisions and creates efficiencies that ripple through the supply chain, driving progress.
In industries like pharmaceuticals and food, where waste can be extremely costly, Bluetooth® technology enables real-time visibility and condition monitoring for global customers, enhancing supply-chain efficiency and minimizing waste. As supply chains digitalize and the need for decarbonization becomes more urgent, Bluetooth connectivity can also support scalable, secure solutions that optimize production workflows and reduce CO2 emissions.
Mikko Savolainen, senior product line director, Silicon Labs
Asset tracking and management
Bluetooth® technology delivers seamless, end‑to‑end visibility into the location, movement, and condition of assets, materials, and inventory across the supply chain and throughout factories, warehouses, and packhouses. Bluetooth tracking tags and sensors provide continuous updates on location, temperature, humidity, and other key indicators to reduce spoilage, slash waste, and safeguard quality at every link in the chain. With real‑time tracking from field to factory to final destination, logistics and production teams that rely on the dependable flow of goods gain greater confidence in timing, security, and delivery. And by surfacing bottlenecks and enabling live monitoring of raw materials and work in progress, Bluetooth streamlines grading, sorting, and packing workflows, cutting dwell times, reducing handoff delays, and helping every operation run at peak efficiency.
By turning every signal into actionable intelligence, Bluetooth® converts visibility into a catalyst for efficiencies, empowering operations to move faster, waste less, and deliver with confidence from origin to destination.
Source: ABI Research, 2025
Source: ABI Research, 2025
Downtime defeated. Progress never paused.
Bluetooth® technology turns maintenance into a proactive engine of operational resilience. By continuously monitoring equipment health, environmental conditions, and predictive indicators, it empowers teams to act before issues arise, preventing costly breakdowns and keeping production lines running without interruption, so progress never pauses.
Predictive maintenance
Bluetooth® technology turns maintenance into a proactive engine of operational resilience. By continuously monitoring equipment health, environmental conditions, and predictive indicators, it empowers teams to act before issues arise, preventing costly breakdowns and keeping production lines running without interruption, so progress never pauses.
By shifting maintenance from reactive to proactive, Bluetooth® technology ensures every system runs longer and smarter, delivering reliability that keeps operations moving and productivity rising.
Source: ABI Research, 2025
Source: Deloitte, 2025
More protection. More progress.
Bluetooth® technology brings people and automation together, enabling safer interactions and smarter operations, helping factories, warehouses, farms, and packhouses scale production while reducing strain on workers and operations alike, all while protecting the teams who turn production into progress.
Safety and workflow optimization
Bluetooth® HMI (Human-Machine Interfaces) empowers safer, more flexible operations by enabling workers to control, adjust, and interact with machinery from a safe distance, reducing exposure to high‑heat environments, hazardous equipment, and moving parts while maintaining precision and increasing productivity. Bluetooth sensors also provide visibility into station occupancy, dwell time, and people flow, helping reveal bottlenecks, optimize labor allocation, streamline workflows, and translate layout insights into measurable productivity gains.
Bluetooth® also supports worker location awareness and geofencing through tags and badges, enabling zone alerts, mustering, and worker status alerts, while Bluetooth environmental sensors monitor gas exposure, heat stress, and air quality to help keep workers protected and productive on every shift. And as automation scales, Bluetooth enabled automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and collaborative robots (cobots) integrate seamlessly into these environments, streamlining material handling, production, and transport and delivering flexible, scalable automation that boosts throughput.
By improving both worker safety and facility productivity, Bluetooth® technology helps create industrial environments where people and systems perform at their best, optimizing output while minimizing risk and transforming everyday operations from a strain into a durable engine for growth.
Source: OSHA, 2024
Bluetooth® Channel Sounding and Bluetooth® Direction Finding solutions enable precise, long-range asset tracking and ensure robust connectivity. This is particularly beneficial in high-risk environments like construction sites, oil rigs, and chemical plants where reducing physical contact with hazardous equipment is critical. The widespread adoption of Bluetooth® tags is a testament to their versatility and effectiveness across industries — from healthcare to logistics — where accurate tracking and safety are paramount.
Ross Sabolcik, senior VP and general manager, industrial and commercial BU, Silicon Labs
Creating a more accessible world
