Track skid-steers, lifts, and generators across distributed yards. Real-time status, CMH accrual, and alerts when an asset leaves its geofence.

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, CMH accrual, alerts + rules, on-demand and scheduled reports

The outcome

• Real-time asset visibility replaced the prior weekly CSV export
• CMH accrual became continuous — no more “I think this lift ran 40 hours last week”
• Geofence alerts flag when assets cross a site boundary overnight, within seconds
• Hub health telemetry so the ops team can preempt gateway failures, not discover them via missing data

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