Modern logistics operations face a growing challenge: how do you truly understand the condition, location, and lifecycle history of every individual asset across increasingly complex supply chains?
From manufacturing facilities to warehouses, transport hubs, and operational environments, critical assets are exposed to changing environmental conditions, handling methods, transportation platforms, and storage environments – all of which can directly affect performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
At Convert, we believe the answer lies in RELai – intelligent asset interlinking.
Introducing RELai...
Pronounced ‘relay’ – is a compact, low-power wireless asset interlink device designed to help organisations gain greater visibility into how individual assets move, interact, and perform throughout their operational lifecycle.
Small, robust, and highly scalable, RELai is built to operate discreetly within challenging environments while providing valuable asset relationship and condition intelligence to the wider logistics ecosystem.
Built for Smarter Asset Management
RELai supports the monitoring and lifecycle management of high-value and operationally critical assets across a range of industries. Once attached, the device becomes part of a wider intelligent monitoring architecture capable of capturing and correlating:
- Asset proximity
- Location history
- Transportation exposure
- Temperature conditions
- Humidity levels
- Shock and vibration events
- Time spent on transport platforms
- Storage conditions over time
This information enables organisations to move beyond traditional fixed lifecycle assumptions and towards a far more intelligent, condition-informed understanding of asset health and usability.
Rather than relying solely on manufacturing dates or broad maintenance intervals, organisations can begin dynamically assessing how environmental and handling conditions may have influenced the operational condition and longevity of individual assets.
The result is smarter inventory management, reduced waste, improved operational readiness, and enhanced confidence in critical equipment and materials.
How RELai Works
RELai operates as part of a wider low-power wireless ecosystem built around secure LoRa communications and intelligent proximity awareness. At its core, RELai acts as a silent digital presence marker attached directly to an asset.
Intermittent LoRa beacon signals transmitted by gateways allow both RELai devices and pallet-mounted tags to remain synchronised in time and communication behaviour.
When communication conditions permit, RELai transmits a lightweight “I’m here” beacon which is detected by nearby tags. These tags then relay proximity and relationship information back through the network to secure backend systems via higher-bandwidth infrastructure.
This enables the system to intelligently determine:
- Which individual assets belong to which pallet or container
- Whether assets have been moved or separated
- Relative proximity between assets and transport platforms
- The movement history of stock throughout the supply chain
Using signal strength and Convert’s optional ranging techniques, the system can accurately infer which RELai devices are physically associated with a given pallet or tagged assembly.
Importantly, RELai has been designed with operational efficiency in mind:
- Low-power architecture
- Long-duration battery operation
- Secure LoRa communications
- Compact and adaptable form factors
- Minimal maintenance requirements
- Flexible deployment options
The result is scalable, intelligent asset awareness without imposing significant burden on logistics teams or operational workflows.
Applications Across Industries
While RELai was originally designed to solve complex asset visibility challenges, the technology itself is intentionally platform-agnostic.
The same intelligent asset interlinking capability can be applied across a wide range of sectors and asset types, including:
- Warehouse and pallet management
- Vehicle components and engine assemblies
- Medical supplies and equipment
- Fuel and hazardous materials
- Food and perishable goods
- Clothing and field equipment
- Aerospace components
- Industrial tooling and machinery
- High-value supply chain assets
Any environment where understanding the relationship between assets, environmental exposure, and lifecycle history matters can benefit from RELai technology.
Enabling the Future of Intelligent Logistics
The future of logistics is not simply about tracking location.
It is about understanding:
- Condition
- Context
- Proximity
- Exposure
- Operational history
RELai provides the missing digital connection between individual assets and the wider logistics ecosystem, creating a smarter, more responsive, and more resilient supply chain infrastructure.
By transforming passive assets into intelligent participants within a secure wireless network, RELai enables organisations to improve visibility, optimise lifecycle management, reduce unnecessary waste, and increase operational confidence across the entire asset journey.
From production to deployment, RELai keeps critical assets connected.