Heavy equipment telemetry

Track skid-steers, lifts, and generators across distributed yards. Site presence, hour accrual, and alerts when an asset stops reporting.

The problem

Heavy equipment doesn’t want to be tracked. Skid-steers have no OBD port. Generators don’t have VINs. Scissor lifts get moved between sites without paperwork, and the fleet manager finds out about it three days later from a phone call.

Legacy fleet telemetry — the kind built for over-the-road trucking — doesn’t fit. You can’t bolt a CAN-bus modem onto something with no CAN bus.

What we built

A full stack Echolo deployment across multiple yards of a national equipment operation:

• BLE tags on each tracked asset, picked up by site gateways on a few-second interval
• Gateway hubs at every yard, store-and-forward when cellular coverage dips
• MQTT pipeline ingests every beacon into the Echolo platform
• Fleet as the operator surface — live dashboard, hour accrual, alerts + rules, on-demand and scheduled reports

The outcome

• Real-time asset visibility replaced the prior weekly CSV export
• Hour accrual became continuous — no more “I think this lift ran 40 hours last week”
• Offline and missing-asset alerts flag equipment that stops reporting to any site hub, so a machine that walked overnight is on the morning report
• Hub health telemetry so the ops team can preempt gateway failures, not discover them via missing data