The popularity of switching to battery-powered trackers to monitor assets is increasing rapidly amongst a variety of industries. The ability to track motorised and non-motorised assets with the same solution that is good value for money is fast becoming important to businesses of all shapes and sizes. But why are battery-powered trackers the way to go?

Asset tracking is popular across a vast range of business industry types from construction sites and agricultural sites to retail, transport and leisure. Business Assets can vary between motorised and non-motorised. With the types of assets considered important and vital to each industry types, they all have one thing in common – the requirement to know where they are.

What are motorised and non-motorised Assets?

All assets and equipment are crucial to a business’s day to day tasks and successes; however some assets can be harder to keep track of than others.

Motorised Assets are more commonly acknowledged as assets that a business would want to track. For example, transport and manufacturing companies often want to track where their fleet of vehicles and machinery are and how often they are being used and maintained.

Types of motorised assets:
Fleets of Vehicles
Agricultural machinery such as combine harvesters & tractors
Construction equipment such as diggers, cranes + forklifts
Generators
Light Towers

Non—motorised assets refer to assets that are crucial to the operational productivity of a business but do not require power supply to be utilised. These types of vital equipment can often be misplaced and overlooked by employees

Types of non-motorised assets:

Portable Loos
Water Tanks
Skips
Tools
Shipping Containers
Live Stock
Trailers

There are many different reasons for wanting to keep track of all of your business assets, why not make it easier and cost efficient by applying one solution to all of your business needs? Battery-powered trackers can be used to gain a better visibility of the usage and maintenance requirements, help to locate your business assets and equipment when used across multiple sites and also protect livestock or lone workers.

We have compiled 5 reasons why using an integrated, battery powered tracker could be the solution you've been looking for:

 

  1. Industry leading battery life
    We get it, hearing the term ‘battery powered’ instantly makes you think that these batteries will need replacing regularly – however the industry leading devices actually last up to 10+ years before they need their batteries replacing.

  2. Easy & affordable installation
    Fast installation and scalable to any business size, the battery powered trackers can be added to any asset without the need for any new infrastructure or hefty installation costs.

  3. Smart energy usage
    With features such as ‘Adaptive Tracking’ allowing the trackers to only jump into action when assets are moving, used within set hours or leave a ‘geofenced’ zone, you can be sure that minimum energy is used and the trackers switch into “sleep’ mode whenever they are not needed. Not to mention, the trackers run off a cloud server, meaning all location solving is managed within the cloud rather than on the device itself.

  4. Mobile friendly solution with customisable reports & alerts
    Our easy to use tracking solution "Foretrack Connect" allows users to create custom reports based on what they want to know about their assets – for example, ensuring that all vans within a business fleet are being used economically, tracking animals in agricultural settings, ensuring that you are sent an alert if they stray outside of your property or keeping track of where all the portable toilets are being stored at a festival. All of these features combine into a desktop/mobile responsive application that makes asset tracking easy, no matter what your business size. As asset numbers increase and businesses grow bigger, it can be administration overload to keep track of everything in once place. Combining all of your motorised and non motorised tracking into one complete solution, will provide optimal productivity and efficiency in the day to day running of your business.

  5. Small & concealable
    Battery-powered trackers are as small as the size of a credit card, ensuring that you can feel secure that they are concealable to increase security and avoid stolen assets, and also do not get in the way of the assets day to day use. Battery trackers can be attached to animal collars, added under dashboards and installed into skips and tools without impact.

Whether you are trying to improve visibility of assets or simply keep track of maintenance and usage, batter powered trackers can adapt to any use case, business size and asset type. If you would like to find out more about Battery-Powered trackers and how we can support your business, talk to a member of our business team.