Generators, compressors, pumps and site plant monitored the same way as vehicles — run hours, fuel level, location and theft alerts — so maintenance follows actual use and nobody discovers an empty tank at 2am.
A machine that ran four hundred hours needs servicing. A machine that sat in a yard for three months does not, whatever the calendar says.
Static equipment is where the fleet mindset pays off in a business that does not think of itself as having a fleet. A generator is a capital asset that consumes fuel, requires servicing on a usage schedule, can be stolen, and is frequently left running when nobody needs it — which is precisely the list of problems vehicle telematics was built to solve. The only difference is that it does not move.
Run hours are the central number. Servicing a genset on a calendar means servicing some units too often and others far too late, because utilisation varies enormously between a standby unit and one carrying a site through a Gulf summer. Scheduling on actual hours is both cheaper and more reliable, and it is impossible without automated logging, because manual hour-meter readings are collected inconsistently and transcribed badly.
Fuel is the second. Generator fuel theft is common, easy and rarely investigated, and the pattern is recognisable once you have data: a drop that does not correspond to run hours. Equally valuable is the low-fuel warning, because the cost of a generator running dry is almost never the fuel — it is the site that stopped, the shift that was lost, or the equipment that went down uncontrolled.
For rental businesses the case is billing. If you hire out plant, verified run hours and verified on-hire and off-hire times turn disputed invoices into settled ones. The customer who insists the unit was returned on Tuesday is answered with a position record, and the unit that was quietly used for two hundred hours beyond the agreed envelope is billed for.
This sits in the same platform as the vehicle fleet deliberately. Most companies that own generators also own vehicles, and splitting them across two systems means two logins, two sets of alerts and no combined view of what a project actually cost. One platform with role-based access is usually the right architecture, and it is why this is a feature rather than a separate product.
Not necessarily. Where the machine has a battery or power supply the tracker can draw from it and report frequently. Where it does not, a battery-powered unit works on the same trade-off as asset tracking: less frequent reporting in exchange for multi-year life. For generators, wiring to the machine is usually straightforward and gives you run hours directly.
Either from the machine own signal where one is exposed, or by detecting engine running through vibration or voltage. The first is more precise and preferred where available; the second works on almost anything and is accurate enough for maintenance scheduling. We confirm which applies per equipment type during scoping.
Yes, by the same logic used on vehicles: a fuel drop that does not correspond to run hours is not consumption. Sudden-drop alerts flag it at the time rather than at the next fuel reconciliation, which is usually the difference between identifying a pattern and absorbing a loss.
Yes, and hire businesses are among the strongest users. Verified on-hire and off-hire times, verified run hours and location history resolve the billing disputes that otherwise come down to one party word against the other. Access can be scoped so a customer sees only the units they currently hold.
Yes, and we recommend it. Splitting them means two platforms, two alerting setups and no combined view of project cost. Role-based access lets a site supervisor see their equipment while head office sees everything, without needing a second system to administer.
Tell us what equipment you run and whether it has power available. We will specify the monitoring and what it reports.
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