Wireless Equipment Tracking

Every generator, compressor, welder and tower light in your fleet appears on one rotation view: which site it sits on, which hours it ran, which contract it is billed against. A battery powered GPS device on each piece of plant feeds the live picture, so the contracts office sees the full inventory at any moment and the foreman bills what was actually used. When kit does leave the slab without a logged movement, the same platform that runs day-to-day utilisation also runs the recovery workflow.

Direct answer

Wireless equipment tracking from TG Tracking puts a battery powered GPS device on generators, compressors, welders, tower lights, pumps, plant attachments, toolboxes and the rest of the kit that travels with a contractor. The device tolerates the vibration and dust of a working site, alerts on after-hours motion and tampering, and provides utilisation data across multiple projects. Sits inside the broader wireless asset tracking product line, alongside Asset Tracking and Recovery for the recovery workflow and Fleet Tracking and Management for the bakkies and trucks the equipment moves with.

Multi-site equipment, one rotation view

A 50 kVA generator that rotates between four sites in three provinces, runs nine days at one site and eleven at the next, gets sub-hired to a partner for a fortnight and comes back to the depot for a service, deserves a tracker built for that life. The wireless device tolerates vibration, dust, fuel and water for years, and the platform records every site-to-site move, every hour of active use and every sub-hire window. The rotation that used to live in a foreman's head now lives on the platform, with the same view shared by procurement, accounts and the contracts office.

Utilisation and billing accuracy

Utilisation is the everyday return on the platform. Open TG Online and every generator, compressor and tower light sits on the same map as the bakkies. Site-level geofences register arrival and departure automatically. The platform shows the actual hours the asset moved, vibrated or registered active use, alongside what the foreman billed. When equipment is sub-hired, the platform sees the move to a new geofence and logs the window. When used outside contracted hours, the after-hours alert fires to the on-call manager.

The procurement question shifts from "do we have one" to "where is the one we have". A single avoided duplicate purchase pays for the subscription on the rest of the fleet.

Vibration tolerance and after-hours alerting

Plant equipment lives a harder life than any other tracked asset: a 200 amp welder on a steel-erection site, a jackhammer attachment, a water pump in a flooded pit. The hardware is sealed against ingress, mounted with isolation and rated for sustained shock and outdoor temperature swings. The after-hours alert is configured to the contracted shift pattern, so motion at 22:30 on a site where the last shift ended at 18:00 wakes the right person.

Equipment families covered

Generators, compressors, welders and tower lights are the four most-stolen items on a typical South African construction site; the device fits inside the chassis cavity, behind the cover plate or inside the panel. Plant attachments and breakers like excavator buckets, hydraulic breakers and grabs that move between machines and sites. Pumps and water tankers for civils, agriculture and remote outposts; wireless tracking here pairs with Remote sensor monitoring for runtime and flow rate. Toolboxes, fibre-install kits and copper stock in service vans, with the vans running on Fleet Tracking and Management. Mining and quarry equipment complements Mining IVMS by covering the non-vehicle plant on site.

South African construction-site reality

South African construction sites work across provinces and across borders, with laydown areas open to weather, shift change and rotating crews. The control room is in this country and works with recovery partners that know the routes plant equipment travels between sites near the N12 and yards across the SADC region. Where insurance evidence is needed, the platform produces the location history and the contracted-use record from the same dataset.

For the full business asset workflow including insurance evidence packs, see Asset Tracking and Recovery. For container and on-site office tracking on the same site, see Wireless Container Tracking.

Frequently asked questions

Find the kit. Bill what was used. Stay ready for what moves.

Tracked equipment turns the rotation into a live record that procurement, accounts and the contracts office share. The same record stands in for the insurance evidence pack when it is needed, and the subscription is a smaller line item than the duplicate-purchase decisions it removes.