Plant Equipment - Buckets

I would suggest you need the same solution as in every relatively big supermarket.

There are a number of solutions that can be used based on either RFID or WiFi. I am assuming that they are looking to protect the items from being stolen from a storage yard. Or are the items being stolen off the actual equipment?

For the storage yard the tag(active or passive) would be attached to the equipment item and then you would have a two level process for the monitoring. The first phase monitors the item being in the read range of a reader and if the item goes out of the read range an alert is sent. The second uses readers at "Chock Points" such as entry and exit gates to capture movement and event trigger the capture of an image of the vehicle carrying the equipment.

John

We have success with this type of item tracking. We use 3 years Battery with complete sealed GPS devise.  Welded to the buckets with poly carbonate  protection to the receiver area only.  It can be done the installation can be costly

happy to introduce my self . We are Based in Sydney Australia and have been operating for over 6 years.
Be happy to share our experiences.

Karma,  The units i recommend for the buckets is the AS1 . It has a high temp threshold. metal in the Australian sun can get quite close to 90C
Our previous tests at the  extreme reach about 80 C.  The AS1 from Atrack appears to handle the high temps. We normally set the  units to acquire coordinates at 6am every morning. battery will last for 3 years.  perfect for customers like these.

As for the install, welders need to insert - heat sink material around the devise.    hope this is of some help to you.

happy to introduce my self . We are Based in Sydney Australia and have been operating for over 6 years.
Be happy to share our experiences.