GPS Tracker for Equipment

An equipment GPS tracker is a sealed device mounted on the machine that reports its position, trips and engine hours over the cellular network. The High Point GPS platform shows each excavator, loader or generator on a map, with the hours it has run and the last time it moved.

Heavy equipment is spread across job sites, rented out, moved on lowboys and left parked for days. Office staff spend time calling sites to find a machine, and maintenance gets scheduled from paper hour logs. A tracker on each unit replaces those calls with a map and replaces the log with hours read from the machine.

The GO Anywhere Plus is the general choice for powered equipment, yellow iron and generators. It wires to 12 V or 24 V DC with three wires (power, ground, ignition) and has a field-replaceable backup battery rated for 3 to 5 years depending on use. It is sealed to IP67/69K and rated from -40 °C to +85 °C.

The GO10 suits newer machines (post-2010) where you want engine data through a harness. It does not support the PWM/JPW protocols found on legacy pre-2010 heavy-duty and off-road equipment, so older machines are better served by the GO Anywhere Plus. For the harshest conditions, the GO Rugged is sealed to IP68 and IP69K and is used on heavy equipment, agricultural machinery and oil field equipment.

Unpowered items such as roll-offs and dumpsters take the battery-only next-gen GO Anywhere, and small tools and attachments can carry Bluetooth tags that nearby trackers pick up. See Asset Tracking for those.

Engine hours come from the operational time the engine control unit reports. When a machine does not report them, the platform calculates hours from ignition and GPS movement instead, and you can enter the current hour meter reading as a starting value. Those hours drive maintenance schedules, so service intervals follow actual use rather than the calendar.

Trips, distance, ignition status and engine hours together show how hard each machine works. A loader that sits idle at one site while another site rents the same model is easy to spot, and the numbers help when you decide whether to move, sell or replace a unit.

Yes, when the machine has factory telematics. High Point GPS can bring its AEMP 2.0 data (the ISO 15143-3 standard) into the platform with no device to install. Activation is remote and contactless.

Each brand sets its own conditions. For Caterpillar, you need an active ISO 15143-3 (AEMP 2.0) API subscription and a Client ID and Secret from your dealer, and data can take up to 24 hours to appear after setup. Komatsu and Kubota connect under the same ISO 15143-3 requirement.

This lets a mixed fleet live in one place: OEM-connected machines next to units fitted with a GO Anywhere Plus or GO10, plus your trucks and trailers, instead of a separate portal for each brand.

It helps you see unauthorized use and find a machine after it moves. Set the GO Anywhere Plus to movement-based immediate reporting and it sends start and stop events in near real time, so a machine that moves on a weekend shows up when it happens. Its high-frequency mode reports every 15 minutes while the machine is in motion, which gives you a trail to follow.

For machines that work beyond cellular coverage, the GO Anywhere Plus can fall back to satellite through select carriers (model GATAA1 includes Rogers and T-Mobile direct-to-cell with Starlink, where the carrier and region support it). A GO device can also take the IOX-SATIRDv2 Iridium modem, which sends immediate notifications for ignition changes and reports position every 15 minutes by default.

High Point GPS installs and configures the trackers and sets up OEM data connections with the credentials your dealer provides. Our Montreal team supports dispatchers, site supervisors and mechanics in English and French.

For US fleets: the GO10 has not been granted a CARB Executive Order, so it cannot be installed on vehicles registered or mainly operated in California until Geotab issues one. We plan California units around that rule.