Small Asset and Tool Tracking

Small asset tracking is tool tracking for the gear too small or too numerous to carry a GPS tracker of its own: drills, saws, ladders, toolboxes, attachments. You stick or screw a Bluetooth tag to each item, and the tracked vehicles in your fleet report which tags are near them.

A hand tool has no power supply to feed a GPS tracker and a cellular modem, and fitting a full tracker to every drill is rarely practical. A Bluetooth asset tag is small, runs on its own battery for up to 3 years, and leaves the location and the data connection to the vehicle.

The tag broadcasts a Bluetooth Low Energy signal. A GO device in a vehicle, fitted with the IOX-Bluetooth module, detects tags within range and reports their presence to the High Point GPS platform over its own cellular connection. You do not need a separate data plan for each tag.

The tag shows up where the vehicle that detected it is. If a ladder left the yard on one truck in the morning and that truck no longer reports it by evening, you know where to start looking. A wired GO Anywhere Plus on a trailer can detect tags as well, so tools stored in a trailer report through that trailer's tracker.

The tags are partner hardware. Supported beacons come from ELA Innovation (PuckID, CoinID, Puck MAG, Puck T and LiteID) and Link Labs (E9, E8 and E7 Puck Tags). In North America they are supplied through Link Labs; in Europe, through ELA Innovation. Small asset tracking is available to fleets in North America and Europe.

The tags install wire-free with screws or adhesive, which matters on tools that get dropped, rained on and thrown in the back of a truck. We help you pick the tag shape that fits each type of item when we plan the rollout.

The Bluetooth relay has a tradeoff. A tag with no tracked vehicle nearby does not report until a vehicle with a GO device comes back into range. That happens in a yard with no tracked trucks present, or when the item travels in a vehicle from outside the fleet.

Tool tracking suits gear that mostly travels in, or stays near, your own tracked vehicles. For a trailer, a generator or a dumpster that sits alone for weeks, a GPS asset tracker with its own GPS and cellular connection, such as the GO Anywhere or GO Anywhere Plus, reports on its own schedule no matter what is parked nearby.

High Point GPS, a Geotab partner, installs the IOX-Bluetooth module in your vehicles, registers each tag and names it in the platform so your team sees "hammer drill, plumbing crew" and not a serial number. We then set the left-behind alerts for the items that matter most.

Tagged tools appear in the same High Point GPS platform as your vehicles and trailers, so dispatch can check where a piece of equipment was last seen without calling around. Our Montreal team supports the rollout and your staff afterwards, in English or French, for fleets across Canada and the United States.