Retail · Logistics · Pharma · Agriculture
Autonomous Inventory & Asset Tracking
Every product carries a low-cost ambient IoT tag. Shelves, warehouses and trucks become self-aware. Agentic AI monitors stock levels continuously, predicts shortages, and triggers restock without a person running a count.
From periodic counts to continuous awareness
Manual inventory counts are a snapshot — accurate the moment they're taken, and increasingly wrong every hour afterward. Ambient IoT tags on products and shelf-level sensors turn that snapshot into a continuous stream: stock level, location and movement, updated as it happens rather than on the next scheduled count.
The volume is the challenge — a large retailer or warehouse can mean millions of individually tagged items reporting continuously. Relay's connection scale and MQTT-SN support for battery-constrained tags mean the ingestion layer isn't the bottleneck, and its built-in stream aggregation turns raw per-item events into shelf- and location-level stock state that a restocking agent can act on directly.
How Relay fits
- →MQTT-SN for constrained tags: low-power ambient tags connect without the overhead of a full TCP stack.
- →10M+ connections: a full store or warehouse worth of tagged items connects to one cluster.
- →Built-in aggregation: per-item events roll up into shelf and location state without a separate stream-processing pipeline.
See it against your own architecture
Every protocol and transport on this page is available on the Free plan. Run it on your own hardware before you talk to anyone.