Events based asset location and management system

An asset location and management system comprising:

• at least one cloud server;
• and
• multiple reader nodes, each reader node comprising:
• at least one BLE radio configured to communicate with a plurality of peripheral devices, wherein each peripheral device of the plurality of peripheral devices is associated with and monitors a physical location or a physical state of a respective asset of a plurality of assets;
• a local services module in communication with the at least one BLE radio and configured to analyze data associated with each asset of the plurality of assets;
• and
• a communications manager in communication with the local services module and configured to communicate with the at least one cloud server, and
• wherein the at least one cloud server comprises:
• a communications module for receiving, from the communications manager of at least one of the multiple reader nodes, an analyzed data set associated with at least one asset of the plurality of peripheral devices in communication with the at least one BLE radio of that reader node, wherein the analyzed data set includes physical location data;
• a process flow library describing how distinct types of assets are expected to move through a facility;
• a rules library describing a plurality of trigger events associated with the distinct types of assets and identifying a corresponding action for each trigger event;
• and
• a real-time compute engine configured to generate a sequence of events based in part on the analyzed data set associated with the at least one asset and a determined type of the at least one asset and determine, using the process flow library, whether the at least one asset is traveling in an expected manner.