Portable GPS Tracker in Vadodara: Battery Tracker for Plant Crates, Garba Gear and Yard Trailers

Vadodara district lies on one of the busiest freight corridors in western India. Vadodara Junction is a major station on the Western Railway main line, the Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway runs north toward Anand and Ahmedabad, and the road and rail routes between Mumbai and Delhi both pass the city. Away from the main line, Dabhoi Junction has narrow gauge branches toward Miyagam Karjan, Chandod and Kevadiya. Goods from the district therefore leave by road, by rail or by a mix of both, and a trailer that left a yard in the morning may be at a railhead, a port or a customer gate by evening. An owner who relies on phone calls to the driver knows how thin that information can be.

The industrial base is wide. Gujarat Refinery was built outside the city from the 1960s, and a petrochemical complex, fertiliser and chemical plants grew around it. Nandesari is a notified industrial area, and the district has several more estates run by GIDC. Engineering is a strength: the city is home to many makers of power transmission and distribution equipment, and a rail-coach plant works at Savli. Pharma units add to the load. Spares, panels, fabricated frames, drums and finished machines move on pallets, flatbeds and hired trailers, and each of them passes through several hands between the workshop and the buyer. A magnetic tracker on the pallet or the trailer frame gives the dispatcher something firmer than a promise.

Farming and water shape the rest of the district. The Mahi and the Narmada run along its edges, the Vishwamitri crosses the centre, and the Dhadhar and the Orsang drain other parts, while much of the district lies in the Narmada canal command. Paddy, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize, pulses, sugarcane, cotton, groundnut and castor are grown. Contractors who dig canals, lay pipes and level fields keep pumps, rollers and small excavators on moving sites, and these machines have no ignition line a normal tracker could use. A battery unit that is stuck on the body suits them better, and it can move to the next job in a minute.

From Vadodara, the Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway carries loads north through Anand and Kheda toward Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, a run that a transporter can finish within a working day. South along the Mumbai corridor, trucks pass Bharuch and Surat, and many go on to the ports on the Bharuch coast such as Dahej. For a short run of this kind a fast reporting interval is sensible, since the trip ends within hours and the battery is hardly touched. If a halt on the highway runs long, the trail on TB Track gives the owner a reason to call the driver at once.

East of the city, roads lead to Halol and Godhra in Panchmahal and on toward Dahod, and another leads to Chhota Udaipur and the Madhya Pradesh border. The railway also runs toward Godhra and Dahod. These runs cross hills, forest stretches and weak signal pockets, and the BT900 works only where Airtel has signal, so a gap in the trail can occur and fill in when the network returns. A trailer on a two-day run toward Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan does not need a very fast interval. A middle setting gives the direction of travel and the halts and spares the battery.

Some loads are meant for rail. If a pallet goes by train from Vadodara Junction, track only the road leg, mount the device on the outside of the vehicle and lift it off at the railhead for the next job. The same holds for loads that go on by ship from the Bharuch coast: the BT900 is not for the sea leg. Owners who send many loads can keep a few units in the store on a daily mode and give each driver one before departure. Tell BearTech your usual routes when you order, and the interval can be fixed to suit them.

The BT900 reports its location and nothing else. It does not read fuel level, it gives no alert when a seal is broken or a door is opened, it has no temperature sensor and it is not a lock. For that reason it is not for cold chain or pharma loads that need a fixed temperature. It is not for ocean or rail containers either, only for the road leg with the device mounted outside, and it is not made for small parcels. Accuracy is 25 to 30 m. It runs on a 2G-3G Airtel SIM, so a spot without signal delays the report. Track your own goods, equipment or vehicles, or items where the owner has given written consent.