Portable GPS Tracker in Vav-Tharad: Battery Tracker for Castor Trailers, Feed Loads and Borewell Rigs

Vav-Tharad lies in the north-west corner of Gujarat, with Rajasthan to the north, Banaskantha to the east, Patan to the south and Kutch to the west. Tharad is the headquarters, and the district has eight talukas: Vav, Tharad, Suigam, Lakhani, Diyodar, Bhabhar, Rah and Dharnidhar. Because the district is new, village lists, offices and some road names are still being settled, and an owner should check the current boundary before planning a route around it. National Highway 68 reaches Tharad from the Rajasthan side, and many buses link the town with places in Gujarat and in Rajasthan. For a goods owner, this is a district through which loads pass as often as they begin.

Tharad is the trade centre. The Central Agriculture Market Yard there is where farmers auction their produce, and dairy cooperatives and a cold store sit nearby. The town also has a jewellery market. The land around is dry and sandy, with scrub and wide fields, and farmers here grow crops such as castor, cumin, mustard, isabgol and bajra, with the harvest sent to the yard in sacks on tractors and trucks. Between the villages, a driver may travel a long time before finding a tea stall. A loaded trailer left at the edge of a field overnight is easy to forget and hard to check from a distance.

Other work in the district is about machines and distances. Borewell rigs go from field to field in the dry months, tractors and threshers are shared among neighbours, and tent houses carry their stock to weddings in towns on both sides of the state line. Trucks bound for Kutch from Rajasthan, and those heading back, pass through the district on long straight roads. The fleet owner who sits in Ahmedabad or Jodhpur cannot see any of this. A simple tracker that sticks on in a minute and moves from one job to the next is a practical answer, and it needs no workshop, no electrician and no fitting charge.

From Vav-Tharad the main lanes run toward Rajasthan in the north, Deesa and Palanpur in the east, Patan in the south and Kutch in the west. Produce loads usually go to the Tharad yard first and then to Deesa, Palanpur or Ahmedabad. A middle reporting interval gives a useful picture of halts and direction on these trips. A short farm-to-yard run ends in a couple of hours, so a fast interval costs little, and the exact setting can be agreed with BearTech when the order is placed.

Long runs into Rajasthan or toward Kutch take a full day or two, and the owner often cares only about where the driver rested and whether the road was the planned one. Signal can be thin on empty stretches, and the BT900 uses a 2G-3G Airtel SIM, which works where Airtel has signal. If the network is missing for a while, points may arrive late, and the trail fills in when the signal returns. This is worth remembering when a driver says he was out of range.

In the dry summer months the sun heats trailers and cabins, so mount the device on a shaded part of the frame where possible. In the monsoon, village tracks can slow a tractor or a rig, and the trail will show the delay. If a machine is moved on a flatbed, take care to read the map as the flatbed's position, not the machine's own. Spare units can be kept on a daily mode between jobs and charged once a month.

The BT900 reports where it is and nothing else. It does not read fuel level, it gives no alert for a forced door or a broken seal, it has no temperature sensor and it is not a lock. So it is not for cold-chain or pharma loads and not for small parcels. It is not meant for ocean or rail containers either, only for the road leg with the device mounted outside. Accuracy is 25 to 30 m. Track your own goods, equipment or vehicles, or items where the owner has given written consent.