GPS tracking for tractors and farm machinery

The fuel leaves, the hours go missing

On a farm, losses are not obvious right away. A tank empties overnight without anyone noticing. The hours actually worked by a machine or a seasonal worker stay a rough guess. During the campaign, every hour of harvesting or spreading counts, and so does every litre burned. And the equipment is spread across large areas, often in zones with poor network coverage.

Agricultural telematics puts numbers on what used to be guesswork: where the machines are, how many hours they really ran, and what goes in and out of their tanks.

Telematics that speaks farming

Engine hours and maintenance

Servicing is triggered by actual engine hours, not the calendar. Machines that run hard in season no longer skip their overhaul, and those that sit idle over winter do not go to the workshop for nothing.

Zones and fields

Geofencing per field, per farm or per customer: working time per zone, proof of work for agricultural contractors, an alert if a machine leaves the perimeter.

Machinery theft protection

Farm machinery can cross the border within hours. Motion detection outside set hours, live tracking, even without internet coverage. Engine immobilisation available on compatible machines.

Trailed equipment and implements

Self-powered trackers on trailers, balers and mounted implements: up to 5 years on one battery, no wiring, sealed units (IP67) fitted in minutes.

Fuel

Every fill, every siphon, time-stamped

Our level probes, wired or wireless, measure the fuel in the tanks of your tractors, combines and mobile bowsers. A refill shows up as a clean rise, a siphon as a sharp drop, often at night and outside working hours. You get the alert the moment the level moves, not when the invoice arrives at the end of the month.

Combined with driver identification by iButton (RFID 1-Wire), every reading is tied to a machine and a person. The angular movement sensor tells real work apart from a simple transfer, for hours that reflect what actually happened in the field.

Level probes, wired or wireless, matched to the tank
Refills and siphoning detected and time-stamped
Immediate alert on a drop in level outside working hours
Driver identification by iButton (RFID 1-Wire)
Real work measured by angular movement and power take-off (PTO), depending on the machine

What your combines report

On recent machines with a usable CAN bus, our units read far more than a position. Harvest data comes in live, aggregated per field and per machine.

Area and throughput

Harvested area, cutting efficiency and throughput per hour. Enough to compare fields, machines and drivers on a factual basis.

Grain quality

Grain moisture and threshing status reported during the job, so settings can be adjusted without waiting for the end of the field.

Hours and maintenance

Harvest hours and real engine hours: the basis for maintenance planned at the right time, before a breakdown in mid-campaign.

Real case

A contractor who invoices fairly

An agricultural contractor works across some thirty farms during the campaign. Before, invoiced hours relied on notebooks filled in from memory, a source of argument at the end of every season. With per-field geofencing and engine hours, every job is dated, located and priced. The invoice comes out machine by machine, farm by farm, ready to be backed up.

That same season, an overnight drop in level on a mobile bowser triggers an alert: a siphon stopped before the tank ran dry. One example among many of what fuel monitoring helps avoid.

Invoiced hours backed by data, not by memory
Billing disputes avoided
Siphoning detected as it happens
Reports per field and per customer, ready to attach to the invoice

What you gain

5 years

Up to, of battery life on trackers for trailed equipment, with no wiring

24/7

Fuel-level monitoring, refills and siphoning time-stamped

To the hour

Machine hours and driver hours, a fair basis for payroll and invoicing

Off-grid

Position stored and sent when the signal returns, even in a dead zone

The gains depend on your fleet and your organisation. We price the equipment machine by machine, with realistic targets rather than promises.

Frequently asked questions

How do I detect fuel theft on a tractor or combine?

A level probe, wired or wireless, tracks the fuel in the tank continuously. A refill reads as a clean rise, a siphon as a sharp drop. As soon as a drop happens outside working hours, the alert goes out at once, with time and position. You act during the theft, not when you find the tank empty.

How do I measure the real hours of my machines and seasonal workers?

Engine hours give the real running time of each machine. Driver identification by iButton (RFID 1-Wire) ties those hours to a person, and the angular movement sensor tells real work apart from a simple transfer. You get a solid basis for payroll and invoicing, with no notebook to fill in.

Can I track harvested area and efficiency over the CAN bus?

Yes, on recent machines with a usable CAN bus. We report harvested area, cutting efficiency, throughput, and depending on the machine also grain moisture and threshing status. The data is aggregated per field and per machine, so you can compare and adjust settings during the campaign.

Does tracking work in rural areas with no network?

Yes. The units store data when the network drops and transmit as soon as it returns. For theft protection, locating the machine remains possible even without internet coverage.

Can you equip older machines with no modern electronics?

Yes. Without a usable CAN bus, a stand-alone unit reports position, running hours and movement. Custom work is part of our trade: we have equipped machines nobody else wanted to touch.

As an agricultural contractor, can we invoice based on the data?

Yes. Reports per field and per customer give the hours worked, machine by machine. A factual basis for invoicing, and disputes avoided.

GPS tracking for farm machinery