Visibility looks different depending on where you are in an industrial facility. In standard areas, tracking people, assets, tools, and equipment is often manageable. Yet in hazardous zones, the same challenge becomes significantly harder. The devices that work everywhere else are not always suitable where explosive gases, vapors, or combustible dust may be present, leaving teams with limited visibility into asset movement, equipment use, tool location, and personnel presence across some of the facility’s most demanding areas.
For organizations operating in oil and gas, chemical production, mining, pharmaceuticals, energy, utilities, and similar industries, this is not a new frustration. Hazardous areas have long been difficult to monitor with standard connected hardware. Teams working in these zones have often had to manage critical workflows with less real-time awareness than other parts of their operations.
That is the visibility gap the Litum ATEX Family is designed to close.
With the Litum ATEX Gateway and Litum ATEX Dualis Tag, organizations can extend high-precision, intrinsically safe RTLS capability into Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous environments, including areas where standard connected devices cannot be safely deployed.
Why We Built It
The need was clear. Organizations running operations in hazardous environments were telling us the same thing: the areas carrying some of the highest operational and safety risk were often the ones they could see the least. Not because they had not tried, but because the tools available to them were not built for those conditions.
We wanted to change that. The Litum ATEX Family was built specifically for environments where ignition risk must be carefully controlled, where standard connected devices cannot go, and where limited visibility can affect asset availability, equipment use, maintenance workflows, workforce awareness, emergency readiness, and operational efficiency.
What the ATEX Family Includes
The family comprises two purpose-built hardware components that work together to deliver complete intrinsically safe RTLS capability, fully integrated with the broader Litum platform.
Litum ATEX Gateway
The ATEX Gateway is the infrastructure backbone of the system. Compliant with ATEX Zone 1 and Zone 2 environments, it acts as a bridge between location devices in the field and the central RTLS platform. It supports both UWB and BLE technologies, features a robust aluminum Ex d enclosure with dual Gas and Dust certifications, and can be installed via PoE with secure Ethernet connectivity and flexible mounting options for walls, ceilings, or walkways.
Litum ATEX Dualis Tag
The ATEX Dualis Tag enables accurate tracking of assets, equipment, and personnel in hazardous areas. Built with hybrid UWB and BLE location technology, it supports sub-meter accuracy, intrinsically safe dual Gas and Dust certifications, an IP67-rated enclosure, up to five years of battery life with a replaceable battery, tamper detection, and over-the-air firmware updates.
Built for Zone 1: Why That Matters
For teams working in the most demanding parts of a hazardous facility, the zone classification of their equipment is not an abstract compliance detail. It determines what can physically be there with them.
Zone 1 areas are where explosive conditions exist during normal operations, not just in worst-case scenarios. They are also the areas where visibility has historically been hardest to achieve, because most available hardware simply was not built to go there.
The ATEX Family hardware was. Both the Litum ATEX Gateway and Litum ATEX Dualis Tag are Zone 1 certified, enabling RTLS coverage in classified hazardous areas that have traditionally sat outside the reach of standard location technology.
What the ATEX Family Enables
With the ATEX Family in place, organizations gain real-time visibility into some of the most challenging areas of their operations.
- For safety and EHS teams, that means workforce visibility in classified zones, faster emergency mustering, and clearer evidence of compliance with area access requirements.
- For operations managers, it means knowing where critical assets, tools, and equipment are at any given moment, without the manual effort that typically fills that gap.
- For IT and technology teams, it means extending an existing RTLS investment into zones that were previously out of reach, without standing up a separate system or infrastructure.
The use cases span asset tracking, workforce visibility, zone access control, process tracking, and emergency response across oil and gas, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, mining, energy, utilities, and heavy manufacturing.
A Step Forward for Industrial Visibility
Hazardous environments have long represented the hardest edge of industrial operations to get right. The Litum ATEX Family is our answer to that challenge: purpose-built technology that meets the safety requirements of classified zones without compromising on the accuracy and reliability teams depend on every day.
If your organization operates in hazardous environments and you are looking to extend real-time visibility into classified zones, we would love to show you what is possible.
