Q Track

Q-Track provides Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) – similar to GPS, but more accurate and capable of working indoors. The company’s mission is enabling “Knowing Where, Anywhere.” Q-Track’s "Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging" or NFER® systems employ a unique low-frequency, long-wavelength radio signal to achieve highly accurate (40 cm rms) location results even in complicated non-line-of-sight environments. With fifteen issued U.S. patents and extensive patent coverage abroad, Q-Track has the industry-leading portfolio of near-field electromagnetic ranging intellectual property. Q-Track’s NFER® products keep workers safe from collisions with automated cranes in dozens of factories nationwide. The nuclear power industry was an early adopter of NFER® products, using them to train employees to avoid exposure to radiation. Southern Company hosted the initial pilot at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia. Southern earned a “Top Industry Practice” Award for training from the Nuclear Energy Institute in 2010 in recognition of the pioneering deployment. Today, nearly a third of the nation’s nuclear power plants use NFER® products. Q-Track won a large contract from Lockheed Martin in 2013 to use NFER® products to track soldiers in a large training facility for Military Operations Urban Terrain (MOUT). NFER® products can enable many RTLS applications. Q-Track’s products successfully track hockey players. Integrators are exploring many other applications. Q-Track has deployed NFER® technology in a variety of work environments to prove that it can reliably track firefighters, corrections officers, miners, and nurses. Q-Track’s NFER® RTLS technology provides the “indoor GPS” to bring location awareness to the most difficult environments.