A short history of crowdsourced finding — and where HH-Tech fits in.
Apple releases AirTag and launches the Find My Network Accessory Program — third-party trackers can join a network of over 1 billion Apple devices.
HH-Tech receives Apple Find My certification, becoming one of the early hardware companies approved to ship trackers on the network.
Google releases the Find My Device Network (renamed Find Hub in 2025), opening a crowdsourced finding layer for 1 billion+ Android phones. HH-Tech receives Google Find Hub certification the same year.
HH-Tech's HHTAG01-Dual becomes the first UK-owned tracker certified for both Apple Find My and Google Find Hub networks — one chip, two ecosystems, end to end.
HH-Tech launches HHTAG Pro with UWB ultra-wideband precision finding for Android phones, shipping before Christmas 2026.
A crowdsourced network of over a billion iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. When a tracker goes out of Bluetooth range, nearby Apple devices anonymously detect its encrypted BLE public key and relay the location to iCloud — end-to-end encrypted, so not even Apple knows who found what.
Google's crowdsourced finding network leverages over one billion Android phones worldwide. Based on the Fast Pair protocol, trackers broadcast ephemeral IDs detected by nearby Android devices — location data is end-to-end encrypted with the same key technology used in Google Password Manager.
Your tag broadcasts a low-energy Bluetooth signal. Any nearby phone running Apple Find My or Google Find Hub anonymously picks it up, encrypts the location, and relays it to the cloud. Only your phone can decrypt and see where it is.
The tracker is only as good as the BLE chip inside. We cooperate with chip suppliers around pre-qualified silicon — RF-tuned in-house, validated against both networks, and cost-optimized for your volume tier.
Traditional trackers use two separate chips — a BLE SoC and a discrete UWB chip — each with its own power rails, memory, and sleep current. In HHTAG Pro, we integrate UWB and Bluetooth IoT on a single SoC at the silicon level.
Ultra-wideband has moved from military radar to centimetre-accurate item finding in under a decade.
First formal UWB PHY/MAC standard.
iPhone 11 brings UWB to consumer phones.
Enhanced security and FiRa specs.
Centimetre-accurate Precision Finding.
First BLE+UWB combo for Android Find Hub.
UWB doesn't send a continuous radio wave — it fires billions of sub-nanosecond pulses. That's what makes it a ruler, not just a radio.
Pulse travels at light speed. Measure bounce-back time = distance.
Spreads across GHz spectrum — looks like noise to other radios.
Estimates angle of arrival, distinguishes line-of-sight from reflections.
Sub-1ns pulses separate objects 30cm apart — Bluetooth can't.