Different buildings across two square kilometres
The site covers 2 km² (about 494 acres). One building is a 100,000 m² (about 1.08 million ft²) hall. The next is a compact shed. Trucks and cages cross the road between them. A single purchase order for the biggest hall's locator grid will equip empty roofs and still go blind outdoors.
Why each building keeps its own indoor combination
Buildings on one areal do not share a floorplate, a fleet count, or a ceiling height. The compact shed follows small fleet in a small hall. A large roof with many forklifts follows one large building and a large fleet. A large roof with few trucks follows small fleet in a large hall. Copying the 100,000 m² (about 1.08 million ft²) grid into every address spends the money on mounts that never see the traffic that justified them, so the investment does not pay back within six months.
The shared problem is the move that leaves a building. That is not a second copy of the densest hall. It is a site layer.
VHF as the layer that crosses the areal
VHF phase ranging is built for full halls, several halls, and the outdoor ground between them on one location stream. A few gateways cover a hall without a locator in every aisle. In documented automotive planning, about 3 m (10 ft) with four antennas across roughly 40,000 m² (about 430,000 ft²) is a realistic starting guide, then a pilot on the real layout. People, trucks, and returnables can move through walls and into the yard without a new technology at every door. How the tracker computes that position is described in VHF for RTLS.
National frequency approval is part of the cost, not a side note. Hardware is specialist. About 3 m (10 ft) is a planning floor for hall and campus work. It is not exact floor position. Put licensing, survey, and mounts on the sheet in what to include when calculating RTLS ROI before you claim ROI within six months.
How the areal still pays back within six months
The areal pays back when each building funds only the combination its size and fleet can support, and VHF is the sparse layer that many assets share across the 2 km² (about 494 acres). A high count of trucks, tuggers, and returnables is what makes a small gateway set rational. There is no published euro case that labels a 2 km² site. The test is the same one used on the measured halls: the year-one operating saving has to repay this site's own spend within six months. How that test works is described in the six-month return depends on the combination.
One twin holds the buildings and the roads so a starve in one hall can be read next to a delay on the road. That is live logistics, the spatially oriented dataset, and later correlation and causality analytics on the same map in internal logistics optimization.
How teams split the purchase
1. List each building's area and fleet before you pick a technology - Different buildings stay different.
2. Fund VHF for moves that cross indoors and outdoors - That case is described in indoor and outdoor on the same move.
3. Add a tighter indoor technology only inside the building whose decision needs it - Medium precision or exact floor position, not both everywhere.
4. Give the areal one ROI test made of those lines, and require payback within six months, not the biggest hall's quote repeated - What the product can do is on the features overview. How a rollout is priced is on pricing.
Get in touch if your areal is being priced as one building repeated across two square kilometres.