Already on Cloudflare DNS · let's expand behind the SmartTape telemetry firehose

Single-use sensors. Billions of events.
The runtime should run at the asset's edge.

Trackonomy ships SmartTape, THL Tape, and ULD Management — single-use IoT sensors that digitize physical assets for UPS, Georgia-Pacific, Invista, KBX, TRIMEDX, FedEx, and more. trackonomy.ai is already on Cloudflare DNS. The expansion footprint is the developer platform underneath: Workers + Queues for telemetry ingest at the POP closest to the asset, R2 for the SmartTape event archive, AI Gateway for predictive maintenance inference, Workers for Platforms for per-industry tenancy across Logistics, Industrial, Utilities, Healthcare, Government, and Airlines.

NS: betty + jake.ns.cloudflare.com · server: cloudflare on every response · cf-ray headers on www.trackonomysystems.com (redirects to trackonomy.ai) · WP Engine on the origin · Microsoft 365 + Slack + DocuSign in the SaaS stack

What's already running on Cloudflare today

DNS
trackonomy.ai + trackonomysystems.com on Cloudflare via betty + jake.ns.cloudflare.com
EDGE
server: cloudflare + cf-ray on every response — Cloudflare in front of WP Engine origin
EXPANSION PATH
Add Workers + Queues + R2 + AI Gateway in front of the telemetry plane — same MSA, same SOC mapping
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Applications: predictive maintenance, cargo theft, last mile, ULD, environmental, asset protection, safety, just-in-time, workflow
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Industries: Logistics, Industrial, Utilities, Healthcare, Government, Airlines
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Offices: US, Mexico, Estonia, India
Single-use
Sensor pricing model — no reverse logistics
Titans of industry transforming operations through Trackonomy
UPS· Georgia-Pacific· Invista· KBX· TRIMEDX· FHR· FedEx (FHR brand)

Trackonomy ships the smart label. Cloudflare runs the planet-scale telemetry edge.

"Barely-there sensors digitize physical assets." When those sensors are attached to billions of pallets, parcels, cargo crates, hospital equipment, and aerospace ULDs around the globe — each one generating environmental, location, motion, and security events — the cloud side of that workload is a global telemetry firehose with hard per-customer attribution requirements. Cloudflare's developer platform is built for exactly that shape.

Trackonomy builds

The sensors, the SmartTape product, the predictive analytics

Single-use sensors with QR-code asset association, SmartTape end-to-end supply chain visibility, THL Tape for temperature/humidity/light, ULD Management for airlines, the configurable platform with API integrations. Customer success training. Predictive maintenance + workflow intervention + environmental monitoring + asset protection use cases.

  • Single-use sensor pricing (no reverse logistics)
  • SmartTape + THL Tape product lines
  • Configurable platform with API integrations
  • HQ San Jose + Mexico + Estonia + India
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Cloudflare runs

The global telemetry edge between every sensor and the analytics plane

Workers + Queues for telemetry ingest at the POP closest to the sensor. R2 for the SmartTape event archive at zero egress. AI Gateway in front of predictive analytics inference. Workers for Platforms for per-industry tenancy. Same edge already on the front door of trackonomy.ai.

  • Workers + Queues for global telemetry ingest
  • R2 (zero egress) for SmartTape event archive
  • AI Gateway for predictive maintenance inference
  • Workers for Platforms — per-industry tenancy

Nine primitives, mapped to Trackonomy's actual product surface.

Each maps to a specific use case or sensor product line published on trackonomy.ai. Status tags show what's already in your Cloudflare footprint.

PRIMITIVE 01Live on CF

DNS + edge for trackonomy.ai

Authoritative DNS via betty + jake.ns.cloudflare.com. The edge serves with server: cloudflare on every response. Same on trackonomysystems.com. The procurement is in place — expansion is a configuration change.

DNSEdgeWP Engine origin
PRIMITIVE 02Highest-leverage next

Workers + Queues for telemetry ingest

Every SmartTape, every THL Tape, every ULD sensor sends location, temperature, motion, and security events at high frequency. Workers at 330+ POPs ingest at the POP closest to the sensor — not centralized backhaul to one region. Queues handle the async fan-out into predictive analytics + customer dashboards.

WorkersQueuesTelemetry
PRIMITIVE 03Predictive AI

AI Gateway for predictive maintenance

"Identify potential equipment failures before they occur" is the published value of the Predictive Maintenance product. Underneath, it's an ML model scoring telemetry against historical patterns. AI Gateway sits in front of the inference layer: cache common patterns, attribute per-customer, cap budget per industry vertical.

AI GatewayPredictivePer-customer attribution
PRIMITIVE 04Per-industry wedge

Workers for Platforms = per-industry tenancy

Logistics customers (UPS, FedEx/FHR) need fleet-wide rollups. Healthcare (TRIMEDX) needs HIPAA-grade isolation. Government has different data residency. Airlines (ULD) need IATA-compliant retention. Workers for Platforms gives each industry vertical its own Worker namespace with isolated keys, egress, audit log.

Workers for PlatformsPer-industryHIPAA
PRIMITIVE 05Event archive

R2 + Vectorize for SmartTape event lake

End-to-end visibility means every event is a row that someone might want to replay 90 days later for a chain-of-custody dispute. R2 stores billions of events at zero egress; Vectorize indexes event embeddings for "find me every shipment with this anomaly pattern" semantic search.

R2VectorizeZero egress
PRIMITIVE 06Per-asset state

Durable Objects for per-asset session state

Each tracked asset (pallet, cargo crate, ULD, hospital device) is a stateful entity: its current zone, its threshold settings, its alert history, the chain-of-custody handoff log. Durable Objects give you a single-writer state holder per asset at the edge — no per-region Postgres cluster, no cross-region replication lag.

Durable ObjectsPer-assetChain of custody
PRIMITIVE 07API integrations

Workers + Hyperdrive for ERP / TMS connections

"Configurable platform and API integrations align with your needs." That means Workers in front of every customer's ERP, TMS, WMS, and SAP integration. Hyperdrive gives those Workers pooled connections to customer databases. Each integration is one Worker route — no per-integration deployment.

WorkersHyperdriveERP/TMS
PRIMITIVE 08Sensor onboarding

Workers AI for QR-code asset matching

"Products work out-of-the-box and a QR code enables easy association with assets." The QR-code-to-asset matching is a per-customer-domain classification problem. Workers AI runs that classification at the edge, against per-customer-trained embeddings stored in Vectorize.

Workers AIVectorizeQR matching
PRIMITIVE 09Customer dashboard

Workers Sites for the customer-facing dashboards

Each customer (UPS, Georgia-Pacific, TRIMEDX) has their own dashboard view of their fleet. Workers Sites delivers those dashboards from the closest POP, with per-customer branding, per-customer KPI widgets, per-customer alert thresholds — all driven by the same underlying telemetry plane.

Workers SitesPagesPer-customer brand

The economics of telemetry at billions of events.

"Single-use pricing per item" means Trackonomy's cost model is per-sensor sold; the cloud cost of running the analytics behind it scales with event volume. R2 + Workers + Queues turn that scaling curve from linear-with-events into mostly-flat — the difference between a healthy gross margin and a margin under pressure.

A back-of-the-envelope, not a quote
Modeled across SmartTape event ingest + predictive analytics + per-customer dashboards at fleet scale
TELEMETRY EGRESS SAVINGS
40–60%
R2 zero egress for the event archive + replay + chain-of-custody dispute resolution vs. S3 + CloudFront egress fees at billions-of-events scale.
EDGE TRIAGE EFFICIENCY
70–90%
Workers triage telemetry at the POP closest to the sensor — most events are boring, only anomalies + threshold-crossings backhaul to the analytics plane. Storage + compute cost falls in proportion.
PER-CUSTOMER ATTRIBUTION
100%
AI Gateway gives per-customer (UPS vs. TRIMEDX vs. Georgia-Pacific) attribution — the data needed to price ongoing platform fees at the right tier for each Titans-of-Industry customer.
The real win is the unit economics conversation. Single-use sensors generate a fixed-revenue event per unit shipped; the cloud cost per unit determines the gross margin. R2 + Workers + Queues flatten the cloud cost curve — letting Trackonomy price sensors at scale-friendly margins instead of subsidizing analytics out of sensor revenue.

6 industries, each with different rules. Workers for Platforms is the boundary.

Logistics customers run global fleet rollups. Healthcare needs HIPAA. Government has FedRAMP-adjacent requirements. Utilities care about uptime SLAs. Airlines need IATA-compliant retention. Industrial needs OT-network integration. Each vertical has its own audit cadence and data residency model.

Per-industry tenancy, sketched

Each Trackonomy industry vertical gets its own Worker for Platforms namespace. Each customer inside gets their own isolated tenant. Same edge, same observability, region-bound data residency for international fleets.
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Logistics
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Industrial
Utilities
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Healthcare
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Government
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Airlines
Shared control plane — Workers for Platforms + AI Gateway + R2 + Vectorize
one runtime · one observability · customers like UPS, Georgia-Pacific, TRIMEDX each get isolated tenants by construction

Current stack, with Cloudflare overlaid.

Every row sourced from public DNS, apex TXT, and HTTP response headers. The green row is already on Cloudflare. The orange column is the additive overlay.

What's running today, and where Cloudflare slots in

Green = live on Cloudflare. Orange column = the additive overlay. No WP Engine or Microsoft 365 rip-and-replace needed.
LAYER
TRACKONOMY RUNS TODAY
CLOUDFLARE FIT
DNS + EDGE
Cloudflare (betty + jake.ns.cloudflare.com) — across trackonomy.ai + trackonomysystems.com
✅ Live — the foundation everything else snaps onto
MARKETING SITE
WP Engine (trackonomyastg.wpenginepowered.com asset host visible in CSS paths)
No change — WP Engine fronts cleanly behind the CF zone
TELEMETRY INGEST
Likely AWS IoT Core / Kinesis or similar managed service
+ Workers + Queues at edge POPs for triage before backhaul
EVENT STORE
Likely S3 / Timestream for SmartTape event lake
+ R2 (zero egress) + Vectorize for semantic event search
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
In-house ML pipeline for predictive maintenance
+ AI Gateway in front: cache, attribution, budget cap per industry
PER-CUSTOMER ISOLATION
Multi-tenant SaaS with config-level customer separation
+ Workers for Platforms — per-industry namespace by construction
ERP / TMS INTEGRATIONS
Custom API integrations per enterprise customer
+ Workers + Hyperdrive for pooled, edge-resident customer DB connections
SAAS STACK
Microsoft 365 (×2 TXT verifications) + Slack + DocuSign + Apple
+ Zero Trust SSO in front of all four (no VPN required)
EMAIL
Google Workspace MX
+ Cloudflare Email Security as defense-in-depth (optional)
GLOBAL OPS
Offices in US, Mexico, Estonia, India
+ Cloudflare Access + Tunnel — identity-aware proxy across all four offices
CUSTOMER DASHBOARDS
Per-enterprise dashboard views for fleet rollups
+ Workers Sites / Pages for per-customer branded dashboard delivery
SENSOR API
QR-code association + sensor onboarding API
+ Workers + Workers AI for edge-side QR matching + per-customer ML

Why this is the right quarter to start the conversation

You're already on Cloudflare. Both trackonomy.ai and trackonomysystems.com resolve through Cloudflare nameservers. There's no procurement event to start, no security review to begin, no MSA to negotiate. The runtime conversation is a roadmap conversation, not a vendor selection.

Single-use sensors mean the cloud math matters. Every sensor is a fixed revenue event. Every event the sensor generates is a variable cost. The gap between those two numbers is gross margin. R2 + Workers + Queues compress the variable cost dramatically — letting Trackonomy price sensors at scale-friendly margins as fleet sizes grow.

Enterprise customers (UPS, Georgia-Pacific, TRIMEDX) are auditable. Per-customer attribution, per-industry data residency, per-region storage isolation — these are SOC 2 / HIPAA / IATA / FedRAMP-adjacent requirements that show up in every major customer contract. Workers for Platforms makes them architectural, not configurational.

Worth a 30-minute conversation with the platform team?

The interesting conversation is which of these is closest to your current sprint: Workers + Queues for global telemetry ingest, R2 for the SmartTape event archive, AI Gateway in front of predictive analytics, or Workers for Platforms for the per-industry tenancy story.

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