Wireless Generator Tracking

Genset runtime, fuel level and location, all on one screen. A battery powered GPS device concealed inside the chassis reports motion, vibration and tamper to the platform, and pairs cleanly with a tank-level sensor when fuel reconciliation is also part of the brief. The operator sees the running hours that match the unit's own hour meter, the tenant or project sees the billing line backed by data, and the team that responds when something does happen has the platform already in hand.

Direct answer

Wireless generator tracking from TG Tracking puts a battery powered GPS device inside the chassis of a diesel or petrol generator so it reports location, motion, tamper events and runtime even when the generator is off, unwired and unattended. It runs on the same platform as your Asset Tracking and Recovery and Fuel Monitoring, and sits inside the broader Wireless asset tracking family with its own alert profile for genset theft patterns.

A tracker built for the genset's life

A working genset shakes hard, runs hot, and lives next to a fuel tank in environments far from a fenced depot. The TG device is concealed inside the chassis, sealed against diesel vapour, and keeps reporting through the vibration of a running engine and the shock of a careless lift. It is not bolted to the canopy where it can be cut off, and its battery survives the sustained envelope a working canopy generates. When motion outside the operating window registers, the control room is on the phone in minutes, ahead of the low-loader reaching the highway on-ramp.

Diesel theft and the GPS pair

A genset on a remote site is a 200 to 1 000 litre fuel tank with a small engine attached. The fuel is worth more than the casual scrap value of the unit. Pairing the location tracker with Fuel Monitoring closes the second loss pattern: diesel siphoned overnight while the genset is off, billed back to the project the next morning. The fuel sensor reports level and the GPS reports geofence; together they tell you whether a 40 litre overnight drop happened on site or in transit, and whether the contractor's logged refill matches what the tank actually received.

Runtime billing that matches the hour meter

When a tenant or a project pays per running hour, the billing record needs to come from the genset itself, not a guess. The TG device reports vibration as a runtime proxy, so static-but-running hours are captured and the monthly statement matches the genset's own hour meter. A 50 kVA diesel at 1 500 rpm is a demanding vibration environment, and the device is built around that resonance pattern, with no exposed solder joints in the vibration path and a battery secured for sustained working envelopes. The result is a runtime record both the operator and the customer trust.

South African context: why genset numbers matter

Load shedding has multiplied the working population of mobile and standby gensets across South African construction sites, office parks, retail centres, agricultural pump stations, telecoms shelters and residential estates . Three operating questions scaled with that population: where each genset is at any moment, how many hours it actually ran for the current period, and how the diesel records reconcile against the consumption sheet. The platform answers all three. A construction project in Ekurhuleni, a wedding venue in the Winelands, a maize farm in the Free State and a Sandton office tower all run the same six-figure unit alongside a working tank, and all four sit on the same dashboard. For multi-site rental fleets, see Wireless equipment tracking and Wireless container tracking.

Frequently asked questions

Genset visibility on the same screen as the rest of the asset base

Tracked gensets bring runtime, fuel and location into the same dashboard as the bakkies, trailers and plant equipment they support. The monthly subscription per unit costs less than one running day of a 100 kVA hire unit, and turns the genset from a free-running line item into a managed asset with its own audit trail.