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Geolocalisation technologies Containers, trailers, heavy equipment. Assets that move between sites, cross borders, and get handed off between carriers. Sensolus smart trackers give you continuous visibility across road, rail, sea, and air with up to 10 years battery life and no dependency on building infrastructure.
Most people say “GPS” for anything that finds its position by satellite. GNSS is the broader term: all the satellite networks, not just the American GPS one. The practical difference for GPS vs GNSS tracking is simple. Modern trackers use several of those networks at once, which gives a steadier fix outdoors, usually within 10 to 50 metres.
For high-value assets that move between sites, cross borders, or change hands, GPS tracking replaces manual check-ins, phone calls, and guesswork with continuous visibility.
When someone asks where an asset is, the answer is in the platform. Not in someone’s memory or a trail of phone calls.
Containers, trailers, and equipment that go quiet get flagged automatically. You find out in hours, not at the next stock count.
GPS geofencing triggers alerts on arrival, departure, or overstay. Location data becomes an operational signal, not a manual task.
Dwell time data shows where assets sit idle. Right-size your fleet based on actual utilization, not estimates.
A Sensolus smart tracker carries GNSS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in one device. It works out where it is and switches between them on its own, so you get coverage outdoors and indoors with nothing to set up.
Outdoors, the tracker gets its position from satellites. When it moves inside, it switches to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth on its own. Nothing to set up.
The tracker sends its position to the Sensolus platform over low-power mobile networks (LTE-M or NB-IoT). It reports more when the asset is moving and less when it sits still. That is how a single battery can last up to 10 years.
Location, movement history, geofence events, and dwell time all appear on one dashboard. Set alerts, export data, or connect to your own systems via API.
Most tracking solutions are built for a single transport mode. When an asset moves from a truck to a train to a vessel, visibility breaks. Our smart trackers automatically detect the type of transport and adjust their behavior accordingly, giving you a continuous, unified view across road, rail, sea, and air. No device swaps, no blind spots, no manual work.
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GPS works well in the right conditions. The challenges arise at the edges: assets that move indoors, routes with no network coverage, or deployments where GPS tracker battery life was never properly accounted for. Sensolus builds a low power GPS tracking system around each of these so the tracking keeps working where others stop.
Airbus
GPS trackers follow jigs carrying airplane components across Airbus's European sites, holding nearly 100% uninterrupted journey data over borders so nothing goes dark between facilities.
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Deutsche Post DHL
Nearly one million GPS trackers across 119 centres give DHL real-time visibility of their rolling cages, so they can flex capacity from quiet days to the Christmas peak on years of battery life.
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Whitecroft Lightning
GPS-tracked reusable containers replaced 100,000 single-use cartons, giving Whitecroft live visibility across a 7,500 km UK network and £6,000 saved in waste costs on a single project.
Read case study →GPS asset tracking is the use of GPS or GNSS-based devices to monitor the location and movement of physical assets like containers, trailers, equipment, and industrial tools in real time. A GPS tracker attached to the asset communicates its position to a platform, giving operations teams continuous visibility without manual check-ins.
GPS is the American satellite positioning system and the one most people are familiar with. GNSS is simply the umbrella term for all satellite positioning systems worldwide. When it comes to GPS vs GNSS tracking, the practical difference is that modern asset trackers use GNSS, drawing on signals from multiple satellite networks at once for more reliable outdoor asset positioning and fewer lost location fixes.
GPS tracker battery life depends on how often the device reports its location. Consumer GPS devices that report continuously may last only days. Low power GPS tracking devices like the Sensolus TRACK 1101 and TRACK 1105 are designed around the actual movement patterns of industrial assets, reporting less when stationary and more when moving, achieving up to 10 years on a single replaceable battery.
Most tracking solutions are built for a single transport mode, so visibility breaks every time an asset switches from truck to train to vessel. A Sensolus smart tracker automatically detects the type of transport and adjusts how it uses its technology. On the road it reports at regular intervals. On rail or at sea, where connectivity is limited, it stores data on-device and uploads when a connection is available. When an asset is parked, reporting slows right down. This adaptive behavior is what stretches a single battery to up to 10 years while keeping assets visible across every leg of the journey.
GPS signals don’t reach through roofs or walls, so indoor tracking needs a different approach. Sensolus smart trackers automatically fall back to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when GPS isn’t available, giving you indoor coverage in warehouses, production halls, and covered docks with no manual setup.
GPS asset tracking is widely used in logistics and supply chain, automotive manufacturing, aerospace, HVAC, rail and transport, and industrial equipment management. It also applies to hazardous environments such as oil and gas, chemical processing, and mining, where ATEX-certified tracking devices are required. Any operation that relies on high-value movable assets like containers, trailers, tooling, load carriers, or returnable packaging benefits from GPS tracking to reduce loss, improve utilization, and cut time spent searching for assets.
GPS geofencing lets you define virtual boundaries around depots, ports, customer sites, or any location that matters to your operation. When a tracked asset enters or leaves a geofence, the platform triggers an automatic alert. This turns raw location data into operational signals: arrival confirmations, departure notifications, or overstay warnings without anyone having to watch a map.
Yes. GPS location history shows exactly how long each asset sits at a depot, with a customer, or in transit. Dwell time data reveals where assets go idle and where processes create delays. This helps operations teams right-size their fleet, reduce unnecessary purchases, and identify bottlenecks across their supply chain.
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