Equipment Monitoring Sensors

Continuous runtime, fault and threshold visibility on every generator, pump, compressor and rotary plant unit. A sensor on the equipment streams live hours, start-stop events, fault codes and condition signals to the platform, with the daily, weekly and monthly ledger against your operating budget already in place. The supervisor opens the dashboard at 14:50 on a Tuesday and sees the runtime, the trend and the next maintenance window on the same screen, so the decision starts ahead of the diesel reorder rather than behind it.

Direct answer

Equipment monitoring sensors from TG Tracking provide live runtime, start-stop, fault-code, threshold and after-hours telemetry for generators, pumps, compressors, flow meters and rotary plant. Data flows into TG Online alongside the rest of the Remote Sensor Monitoring catalogue. Pair with Wireless Generator Tracking when the asset also needs location and recovery, and with Fuel Monitoring when fuel level and runtime are read together.

What an equipment sensor actually measures

Four signal classes do most of the work.

Runtime hours and start-stop cycles

A pulse, voltage or current sensor wired to the genset, pump or motor reads on-state and counts hours. The platform converts that into a runtime ledger by day, week and month against your budget, with start-stop events written to history. The answer to "how many hours did the unit run last night" sits on the dashboard before the morning meeting.

Fault codes and threshold breaches

A logger wired to the equipment's own control panel pulls fault codes via RS-485, Modbus or pulse output where the make supports it. Pressure transducers, flow sensors, voltage and current monitors layer threshold alerts: pump dry-run, low oil pressure, voltage dip, overload, abnormal flow. The alert fires when the breach happens, not at the next manual check.

After-hours and unauthorised operation

The platform compares the runtime stream to the planned schedule and flags anything outside it: a dewatering pump running during a public holiday, a workshop compressor running at 23:30, a borehole pump cycling at 02:00 with no irrigation event logged.

Predictive maintenance signals

Vibration, current draw and temperature trend over the life of the machine. Rising current draw on a pump motor is the early signature of bearing failure. Trend reports catch the drift before the breach.

Runtime as a system-generated record

A continuous runtime stream becomes the same number the operator, the workshop, the finance team and the customer all read from. A hire fleet billing per running hour converts the stream directly into invoice-ready data. A maintenance contractor demonstrates uptime against an SLA from the same continuous log. The depreciation schedule, the diesel budget and the service-interval calendar all run against one source rather than a clipboard read at the next visit.

Where this layer pairs with tracking

Equipment sensors answer what condition the machine is in. Wireless Generator Tracking, Wireless Equipment Tracking and Asset Tracking and Recovery answer where the asset is and whether it has moved. A site genset usually carries both: the tracker for theft, location and geofence; the sensor for runtime, fuel level and fault codes. The combined record is what survives a Monday-morning question about why the unit was off for forty minutes.

Industries that lean on this layer

Construction, mining contractor camps, agricultural irrigation, telecoms tower sites, water utilities, manufacturing plants, hire and rental fleets, and standby-power installations. The harsh-environment profile matters: dust on a Free State site, heat in Upington, vibration at a Mpumalanga colliery, salt air at a Cape pump station. Sensors and loggers are rated for outdoor industrial exposure across that envelope. Mine rollouts sit inside the Mining IVMS frame, with configurations under Industries we serve.

Frequently asked questions

Bring the runtime story onto one dashboard

The equipment ledger moves from the clipboard to the platform, where the same record serves operations, workshop, finance and the customer at the same moment.