Large job sites are busy places — filled with the buzz of people and equipment getting the work done. All this activity, and movement to and from the site, also means it’s easy for equipment to get misplaced.
Which is why we created GPS Asset Tracking — to help you know where your movable assets are at all times.
Asset tracking is a combination of hardware and software that allows businesses keep track of their tangible assets through GPS data.
Why Tracking Matters
It’s common practice for businesses to keep track of their big-ticket items, like vehicles and heavy equipment. But very few have a process in place for keeping tabs on their smaller movable assets. As a result, items are often misplaced or lost without a trace.
Over time, the loss of these smaller items add up — costing businesses big money to replace them.
How GPS Asset Tracking Works
Global Positioning System satellites locate the GPS beacons inside your movable assets using a process known as triangulation. The GPS tracking information is then transmitted to your online portal for viewing via the cellular network. If one of your assets leaves the cellular network, there may be a gap in live coverage, but the GPS satellites will continue to track your asset and will transmit the historical data into your portal once the asset re-enters the cellular network.
All Your Assets, Tracked
Multiple jobs, multiple sites, equipment going out left right and centre, and suddenly something is unaccounted for? There are several jobs it could be on, you need it for something, but it is nowhere to be found.
You want a complete picture of where all assets are so you can assess their availability for future jobs.From dehumidifiers to air movers, Nero Global’s revolutionary GPS Asset Tracking Systems tracks all your movable assets through a simple beachon tagging system. Before deployment, low-energy Bluetooth tags will be placed on your movable assets. These smalls tags emit a low-frequency signal that allows your Nero Global GPS asset tracking system to keep tabs on your equipment, both on and off the site.
Say goodbye to lost equipment and tools and hello to a new way of tracking your assets that will save you time and money.
Read our blog post: “The Importance of Asset Tracking Software for Restoration Fleets” and find out more.
Maximize Your Equipment ROI
When emergency projects happen, like big post-flood restorations, it’s common for thousands of small movable assets to be deployed across multiple job sites. For restoration companies who deal with insurance-capped pricing, it’s critical that they keep close tabs on their equipment so they can make quick retrievals and redeployments in order to make a profit.
These returns exist for organizations of any size; however, larger scale operations, in particular, will see huge returns via the time savings, reduced human error, and risk of non-compliance.
Your equipment is likely costly and maximizing your equipment ROI is always a smart business move.
Nero Global Asset Tracking is your best form of equipment utilization to help you:
These returns exist for organizations of any size; however, larger scale operations, in particular, will see huge returns via the time savings, reduced human error, and risk of non-compliance.
Reduction in Admin Costs
Human error is often unavoidable, but specific measures can significantly reduce its impact on your operations. The highest cost when managing resources are usually staffing on time spent entering assets into the system.
Nero Global Asset Tracking allows your staff time to be dedicated to other tasks, maximizing your investment in people as well. Don’t spend additional staffing hours on tasks that can be easily automated with more accurate results.
The Cost of Inaccurate Management
A product of inaccurate asset management is ghost assets which are recorded assets that can’t actually be accounted for due to loss, theft or depreciation.
Asset ownership is a considerable and complex task, especially when you consider the different life cycles and types of inventory. It is quite easy to accidentally duplicate assets, wasting funds on “replacing” assets already acquired all because of an inefficient reporting system.
How Your High-Value Assets Can Help Track Your Low-Value Assets
You probably already have a GPS system tracking your high-value assets, like your vehicles, to keep tabs on your expensive assets as well as to monitor employee behavior.
For tracking your low-value assets, however, such a system is likely too costly. But, what if there was a way to extend that GPS from your vehicles to your low-value assets?
There is, with Nero Global’s GPS Telematics function.
How GPS Telematics Works
Your trucks go to job sites all over town, picking up and dropping off equipment multiple times a day. Now you can get the truck to take inventory of your tagged assets at the job site for you automatically.
Add Nero Global GPS telematics device to your vehicles.
Add Bluetooth Low Energy collector in your vehicles (turning your vehicle into a reader).
Stick Bluetooth Low Energy tag on your movable assets.
The tags emit a low-frequency signal that can be read by your vehicle. Each time your vehicle drives to a job site, it will take a snapshot of the tags in the area, and allows your Nero Global system to keep tabs of your equipment both on and off-site.
Key Benefits of GPS Telematics
Easier Management With Passive Tracking
Business owners and managers spend a lot of time and effort on the scanning of individual assets. This leads to:
Nero Global’s Passive Tracking features solves this challenge by giving an affordable and efficient solution for asset identification.
How Passive Asset Tracking Works
Turn your vehicles into scanners as they transport the inventory of your tagged assets to the job site for you automatically.
Add Nero Global GPS telematics device to your vehicles.
Add Bluetooth Low Energy collector in your vehicles (turning your vehicle into a reader).
Stick Bluetooth Low Energy tag on your movable assets.
The tags emit a low-frequency signal that can be read by your vehicle.
Each time your vehicle drives to a job site it will take a snapshot of the tags in the area.
What Is The Difference Between Passive and Real-Time GPS Tracking?
Real-time GPS Tracking
Real-time GPS tracking uses satelittes to locate the GPS beacons inside your vehicles using a process known as triangulation. The GPS tracking information is then transmitted to your online portal for viewing via the cellular network. If one of your fleet vehicles leaves the cellular network, there may be a gap in live coverage, but the GPS satellites will continue to track your vehicle and will transmit the historical data into your portal once the vehicle re-enters the cellular network.
Passive GPS Tracking
Passive GPS tracking, on the otherhand, occurs when the satellite GPS tracking information is recorded onto a hard drive onboard the vehicle and can only be accessed by physically downloading it. There is no capacity for live real-time location with passive tracking.
Why Passive Asset Tracking Makes Management Easier
Knowing the location of your assets when they were last seen and how long they’ve been there is invaluable, and often hard to keep control of with manual recording.
Passive asset tracking updates your records whenever the vehicle visits the job site. Once in range, the vehicle will automatically read the tags.
How Passive Asset Tracking Can Help You
Over an eleven-day job, you may potentially manually record your asset whereabouts on days one and ten. This doesn’t offer a clear picture of the status of your assets for the days in between.
Your workers and vehicles, however, may be visiting the site every day. As soon as they are in range, the passive asset tracking automatically updates your management records so you have the most current information without needing to lift a finger.
Key Benefits of Passive Asset Tracking
Why Choose Nero Global?
There are many GPS Fleet Tracking providers on the market and it can be difficult to discern the differences between them. Various providers display GPS tracking information in different ways, but the available data is more or less universal among the high-end providers.
The Nero Global Tracking portal has robust functionality and a user-friendly interface that can be tailored to meet your specific business needs. At Nero Global, we view our customers as business partners and put an emphasis on learning about their individual goals. Each of our customers has his or her own personal account manager to help navigate obstacles while implementing or using their GPS Fleet Tracking platform.
We hope we’ve been able to answer at least some of your questions related to vehicle tracking systems and GPS asset tracking information.
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Say goodbye to lost equipment and tools and hello to a new way of tracking your assets that will save you time and money.
An asset management system is essential for keeping any fleet and its assets organized, efficient and cost-effective. Contact Nero Global to get a free demo of our asset tracking system today.