A lot of things are not battery- or voltage-powered. Nevertheless, it is often interesting to have some basic parameters available. Hence Asset Monitoring & Asset Tracking.
For such equipment, you need to know its location and you want to be aware of any movements. Impact detection in case of accidents. Running hours are also useful for planning your maintenance.
Customers rent for the shortest possible period and preferably bring the device in as late as possible. This often leads to discussion about how long the device has been used and therefore how many days' rent should be charged. That discussion disappears, the landlord can charge days' rent that would otherwise have been lost.
Rental companies spend a lot of time monitoring their assets to know what needs to be maintained and when. By keeping track of operating hours, we automate this process, which frees up a lot of time.
Thanks to tilt detection, you measure the emptying of containers and you can assign damage incurred to the time and place where the incident occurred.
There are plenty of different GPS trackers on the market. As a rule, there are two things you should look at. On the basis of which technology does the GPS tracker determine its position and via which network does the device transmit its data to the dashboard.
There are two options in terms of location. The GPS tracker makes an estimate of the location based on triangulation, based on three transmitter masts in the area, you receive a position that approximates the actual position. Do you want to know where exactly what is located? Then make sure you choose a GPS tracker that uses a GPS chip. Then you look at which network the GPS tracker uses to forward its data. There are various options here, such as 4G/NBIOT, 2G, Sigfox and LoRaWAN.
4G/NBIOT is the best possible solution in terms of coverage, suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. In short, wherever you have GSM reception. This is also a network where you can be sure that the data is effectively passed on. The same applies to 2G, only, from 2025 this network will stop.
With Sigfox and LoRaWAN you don't have that certainty. The coverage of this is limited, you may experience problems crossing the national border and data may not be passed on to the network. Unsuitable for that? No, it all depends on the application for which you want to use the GPS tracker.
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