A strong team driving meaningful conversations
From day one, the energy on the booth was strong. With Filip Buerms, CEO of Essensium, Sander Huysmans, Head of Marketing, Boris Berghmans, VP of Sales, Karien Bergmans, Sales Director BELUX, and Luc Zabouri, Sales Director France, we kicked things off with a strong core team. From day two onwards, the team expanded with Niels Pereboom, Sales Director Netherlands, Huub Tubbax, Head of Project, and Jan Olbrechts, Head of R&D, bringing even more expertise to the floor. Being present with a full team enabled deeper, more valuable conversations about warehouse safety challenges, operational efficiency and real-time positioning technologies.
Real Conversations About Real Warehouse Challenges
LogiMAT is not about foot traffic, it’s about relevance.
Over the three days, we connected with existing customers, met new prospects, and strengthened relationships across industries such as logistics, FMCG and manufacturing. What stood out in these conversations was how consistently the same challenges came back. Companies are struggling with a lack of real-time visibility, increasing operational complexity, and the pressure to improve both safety and productivity at the same time.
It became clear that traditional approaches are no longer sufficient to deal with this new reality.
Bringing Warehouse Technology to Life
Our booth attracted strong attention, especially thanks to the forklift dummy equipped with our hardware. It allowed visitors to experience firsthand how RTLS, AI and vision-based technology come together in real warehouse environments.
Through live demonstrations, ranging from pedestrian detection to SafeTrack, FixTrack, PalletTrack and RoboTrack, we were able to show how real-time positioning systems translate into safer operations and higher productivity.
That hands-on experience made the difference. Visitors didn’t just hear about innovation, they experienced it.
The Rise of the Hybrid Warehouse
One of the clearest trends at LogiMAT 2026 was the rise of the hybrid warehouse.
More and more operations are combining manual forklifts with automated systems such as AGVs and AMRs. While this creates new opportunities, it also introduces additional complexity, especially when it comes to interaction and coordination between people and machines.
What became clear during the event is that this shift is no longer theoretical. It’s already happening on the warehouse floor today.
As we explored earlier in our article on the hybrid warehouse reality: https://essensium.com/the-hybrid-warehouse-reality/
Hybrid environments require a fundamentally different approach to safety and control. It’s no longer about managing isolated systems, but about understanding how everything interacts in real time.
And that’s exactly where the next generation of warehouse intelligence comes into play.
RoboTrack: Solving Hybrid Warehouse Safety
RoboTrack stood out as one of the most discussed innovations on our booth.
It addresses a critical challenge: enabling forklifts, pedestrians and autonomous systems to operate together safely and efficiently. By creating a unified layer of real-time visibility and positioning, RoboTrack ensures that all moving assets are aware of each other and can interact seamlessly.
This not only helps prevent collisions, but also reduces inefficiencies and enables scalable warehouse automation.
The strong interest confirmed that hybrid warehouse safety is becoming a top priority for the industry.
A CLEAR SHIFT TOWARD REAL-TIME WAREHOUSE VISIBILITY
What LogiMAT ultimately revealed is a broader shift in the market, one that goes beyond individual technologies or isolated solutions.
Warehouses are moving away from reactive safety systems, static processes and fragmented data. For years, operations have relied on hindsight: incident reports, delayed KPIs and assumptions about what is happening on the floor. But in increasingly complex environments, that approach is no longer sufficient.
Instead, a new standard is emerging.
Warehouses are evolving toward environments where real-time visibility is the foundation. Where movements are not estimated, but seen. Where risks are not only analyzed after the fact, but anticipated before they escalate. And where safety and productivity are no longer treated as separate objectives, but as outcomes of the same system.
This shift is fundamentally changing how warehouses operate. Decision-making becomes faster and more accurate. Processes become more fluid. And operations move from reactive firefighting to proactive control. At the core of this transformation is one key capability: understanding what is happening, in real time, and in context.
This is exactly where Essensium comes in.
By combining AI, vision and RTLS into one intelligent positioning system, Essensium creates a unified layer of real-time awareness across the entire warehouse. It connects forklifts, people, robots and pallets into one shared operational view.
- From blind spots to full insights.
- From reaction to prediction.
- From complexity to control.
And that is not a future vision. That is the new standard.
LOOKING AHEAD
LogiMAT 2026 was more than a successful event, it was a clear confirmation of where the industry is heading.
The demand for warehouse safety, productivity and real-time operational intelligence continues to grow, driven by increasingly complex and hybrid environments.
The conversations we had, the challenges we heard and the feedback we received all pointed in the same direction: companies are actively looking for more visibility, more control and more integrated solutions.
And while the response to our technology was incredibly positive, one thing is clear:
This is just the beginning.
