Geozone entry & exit
Automatic notification when a container arrives at or leaves a customer site, the depot or the treatment plant. Confirms delivery and collection without manual check-in.
Application
Locate every roll-off, skip and compactor in real time, control deliveries and pick-ups, and right-size your fleet. When a container sits forgotten on a customer site, or goes missing entirely, it’s revenue standing still and capital spent on replacements you didn’t need.
Roll-offs sit forgotten on customer sites for months. Compactors can’t be located when maintenance is due. Nobody is sure whether a container is still where the logbook says it is, so operators keep buying new inventory to cover the gap. Manual logging and phone calls can’t keep up with thousands of assets in constant rotation.
“In the past, we were not 100% sure if a compactor still was at its registered location. Now every technician in the field can immediately see where the waste containers that need maintenance are located.”
Waste operations don't lose money because a container goes missing. They lose it through the chain of consequences when the fleet can't be seen: idle assets, needless purchases, wasted routes. Sensolus closes that visibility gap on four fronts.
Put idle and forgotten containers back into circulation instead of purchasing new ones. Movement data shows exactly what’s standing still.
Plan collections from real-time location and availability data instead of guesswork, so drivers stop chasing containers and empty runs go down.
Movement and geozone alerts flag containers leaving where they shouldn’t, and the location trail supports recovery when one goes astray.
Replace phone calls, spreadsheets and months-long searches with a live digital logbook every technician and planner can trust.
"Instead of buying new inventory, we can now put less used containers back into circulation. This saves costs and reduces new purchases."
What waste operators typically gain with Sensolus
Sofie runs fleet operations at GreenCircle Recycling*, a regional waste and recycling operator serving public collection points and commercial customers across a 2,400 km² district. Her team dispatches roll-offs, skips and compactors between the depot, customer sites and the treatment plant. Until recently, she couldn’t say for certain where any given container actually was.
A single compactor can cost €8,000 to €25,000 to replace, and when one sits forgotten on a customer site nobody logs it. Multiply the guesswork across 2,150 containers in constant rotation, and the fleet quietly grows, with new purchases covering for assets that were never actually lost.
*GreenCircle Recycling is a fictional use case created using an aggregation of data from multiple Sensolus customers in the waste and recycling sector.
Sofie's team fitted every rotating container with a battery-powered smart tracker, matched to how far and how often it moves. On liquid and hazardous-waste IBCs, that same tracker also relays a fill-level sensor, so a full container is flagged before it is collected. One platform, one view of the whole fleet.
| Asset type | Quantity | Tracker | Update frequency | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roll-off containers | 1,050 | Smart tracker | Daily + on movement | Location, dwell time, utilization |
| Skip containers | 720 | Smart tracker | Daily + on movement | Loss prevention, pick-up scheduling |
| Compactors | 140 | Smart tracker | Daily + on movement | Maintenance access, movement alerts |
| IBC containers | 240 | Smart tracker | Daily + on movement | Hazardous-waste location, fill level & compliance |
Sofie used to reconstruct the fleet from a logbook and phone calls. Now the Sensolus platform does the heavy lifting, generating automatic alerts on configurable rules, so her team only acts when something actually needs acting on.
Automatic notification when a container arrives at or leaves a customer site, the depot or the treatment plant. Confirms delivery and collection without manual check-in.
Alert when a container sits unmoved on a site longer than expected, so idle assets get retrieved and put back into circulation instead of prompting a needless new purchase.
A container moving outside its authorized zone triggers an immediate alert, and the location trail is preserved to support recovery.
Infrastructure-free deployment. Data that flows into your existing systems. Years of battery life on assets that live outdoors. Everything else flows from these three.
Self-contained smart trackers run on public low-power cellular (NB-IoT) with no gateways and no wiring. Fit a container and it reports, and it keeps working reliably even in remote and border areas of your service district.
A REST API streams location, movement and utilization data straight into the tools you already run, from SAP and fleet management to route-optimization software, so container visibility shows up where planners and technicians already work.
5 to 10 years of battery life per tracker, on rugged hardware made for the yard and the road. No charging, no swap-out cycles, no maintenance overhead, just containers that keep reporting for their working life.
The questions waste and recycling operations, fleet and scheduling leaders ask us most when they start evaluating container visibility.
No. Sensolus smart trackers work out of the box over public low-power cellular (NB-IoT) and GPS networks, with no gateways, no receivers, no wiring, and no changes to your depot, customer sites or IT. You fit a tracker to a roll-off, skip or compactor and it starts reporting its location, wherever it travels across your service area.
They keep working reliably even in remote and border areas of a district, where crews often struggle to get a signal.
Any moving asset in the fleet: roll-off containers, skips, compactors, IBC containers and specialized equipment. Smart trackers report location, movement and dwell time so you always know where each container is and how long it’s been there.
The same location and movement data feeds availability and utilization reporting, so you can plan collections around where containers actually are instead of fixed rounds.
Yes, on the right containers. The SENSE FL 4300 fill-level sensor uses radar and works best on liquid and hazardous-waste IBCs, where the surface gives a clean signal. It pairs with the container’s smart tracker, which relays the reading, so there’s still no separate gateway to install on a moving asset.
It is not a plug-and-play fit for every container. Irregular, mixed waste such as glass banks reflects poorly, so each fill-level use case needs testing first. Talk to us about your container type before planning a rollout.
Most fleets grow because operators can’t confirm where existing containers are, so they order more to be safe. With live location and movement data, you can see which containers are idle or forgotten on a site and put them back into circulation instead. As Erwin Rießle of EGW put it: “Instead of buying new inventory, we can now put less used containers back into circulation.” The same data lets you correctly size any investment you do make.
Yes. You can define geozones and movement rules so the platform alerts you when a container leaves an authorized area or moves unexpectedly. With containers now a target for theft, that traceability gives you an early warning, and the preserved location trail supports recovery when something does go missing.
Yes. Sensolus exposes location, movement and dwell-time data through a REST API and can sync with the systems you already run. Waste and recycling customers typically integrate real-time container data with SAP, their fleet management system, or route-optimization software, so visibility shows up where schedulers and technicians already work.
Sensolus smart trackers are engineered for 5 to 10 years of battery life under typical container cycles, depending on configuration and reporting frequency, often longer than the working life of the container itself. There are no charging stations, no swap-out cycles, and no maintenance overhead. The hardware is rugged and built to live outdoors on the yard and the road.
Deployments are typically live within weeks, not months, because there’s no site infrastructure to install or approve. Visibility benefits appear from day one: locating any container in seconds, catching idle assets, ending the manual logbook.
Cost benefits build over the following months as teams use movement and utilization data to reallocate idle containers, avoid unnecessary purchases and optimize collection routes.
Whether you're managing 200 skips or 15,000 containers across a region, let's talk about what full fleet visibility could look like for your operation.
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