GPS Fleet Tracking for Street Sweeping

A sweeper's GPS trail looks the same whether the broom is down or up. That is the problem with tracking a sweeper like a truck: the map shows every street it drove and says nothing about which ones it cleaned. An IOX-AUXM module on the GPS tracking device reads the broom-down circuit, the water pump, the conveyor and the beacon, and stamps each state change with the time and the location. The trip replay then draws the swept segments in one colour and the driven segments in another, and the operator's route sheet is replaced by a map that shows the work.

That distinction is what answers the resident. A street that was signed for sweeping and driven with the broom up because the hopper was full is a missed street on the report, not a swept one. The supervisor sees the miss the same day and schedules a return before the complaint arrives. A dust complaint from a block at 6:40 is checked against the water pump state at 6:40. High Point GPS wires the inputs to each sweeper model in the fleet, including the ones with two engines and the ones with a separate hydraulic circuit for the broom.

The sweeping program is measured in curb-kilometres, and most departments report it from the planned route lengths. The record from the sweeper is different: it counts the distance actually covered with the broom down, by route, by shift and by season. When the council asks what the program delivered, the department reports what was swept rather than what was scheduled. When the budget conversation turns to whether a third sweeper is needed, the coverage report shows how many curb-kilometres the two existing machines reach before the season ends.

Routes drawn as geofences make the report readable. The spring cleanup, the residential cycle, the arterials and the downtown night route each have their own zone and their own target. The coverage report for the week shows each route's swept distance against its target, the segments missed and the segments swept twice because two operators overlapped. The supervisor adjusts the routes from that report, and the seasonal summary goes to the director with the miss rate and the curb-kilometres per shift by operator.

Municipalities with a stormwater permit are asked to show that street sweeping happened as a pollutant control, with dates, streets and frequencies. A paper log kept by the operator is the record most departments have, and it is the record an auditor questions. The sweeping log from the High Point GPS platform carries the date, the route, the streets covered with the broom down, the water state and the operator, and exports on a schedule to the file the environmental office keeps. The department answers the permit question with a report rather than a binder.

The same record reconciles the contractor. Municipalities that contract some or all of their sweeping receive an invoice by the route or by the hour. The sweeping record from a GPS tracking device in the contractor's machine, installed on the municipality's terms, shows the curb-kilometres swept with the broom down and the hours on site. The invoice is checked against the record, and the contract's performance clauses are enforced from data both parties can see. High Point GPS sets up the database so the contractor sees its machines and the municipality sees the work.

A sweeper is two machines in one: a chassis engine that drives it and an auxiliary engine that runs the broom, the blower and the conveyor. Maintenance runs on the hours of each, and a shop that tracks only the chassis misses the engine that fails first. Engine-hours reminders in the High Point GPS platform cover both, and fault codes from the chassis reach the shop when they appear. Electronic DVIR in the driver app walks the operator through the pre-shift check of the brooms, the water system and the hopper, and a reported defect becomes a work order before the shift starts.

Sweeping is night work and seasonal work, and the operators change. Driver ID through the IOX-NFCREADERA attributes each shift to the operator who tapped in, and the coverage and miss reports run by person. Speeding on the arterials with the beacon off, idling at the dump site and a hopper run that took an hour longer than it should all show up on the operator's report. The supervisor coaches from a specific shift, and the season's summary informs which operators are asked back next year.