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IoT & Asset Tracking

One Platform to Track Every Jobsite Asset

Construction fleets lose millions annually to untracked equipment, idle assets, and theft. Techdots built Tenna's core platform — a unified tracking layer across GPS, RFID, Bluetooth, and cellular that works for any asset class from excavators to hand tools. The system gives fleet managers real-time visibility, utilization analytics, and maintenance scheduling without juggling four different vendor portals.

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Tenna

IoT & Asset Tracking

99.6%

Asset location accuracy across GPS, RFID, and cellular networks

3.2x

Faster equipment utilization reporting vs. manual spreadsheet workflows

40%

Reduction in lost or unaccounted jobsite assets within 90 days of launch

8 months

timeline

This engagement is best for

Construction and heavy equipment fleet operators managing 500+ mixed assets

Companies struggling with asset theft, underutilization, or manual inventory audits

Fleet managers needing cross-asset-class reporting in a single dashboard

Businesses scaling from regional to national operations with distributed jobsites

The Transformation

Before & After

Before

✕ Asset location was tracked in spreadsheets updated manually by site supervisors, often days behind reality

✕ GPS, RFID, and BLE data came from separate vendor platforms with no unified view

✕ Equipment utilization was estimated — no reliable engine-hours or runtime data flowing to billing

✕ Maintenance schedules were based on calendar dates, not actual asset usage, causing premature or overdue service

✕ Theft and loss incidents had no forensic timeline — recovery was largely impossible after the fact

After

✓ Real-time location for every tracked asset — from $250,000 excavators to $80 power tools — on a single map view

✓ Unified ingestion pipeline handles GPS, RFID, BLE, and cellular signals from multiple hardware vendors simultaneously

✓ Engine-hours data feeds directly into billing and maintenance workflows, eliminating manual estimates

✓ Predictive maintenance alerts trigger based on actual runtime thresholds, reducing unplanned downtime by a measurable margin

✓ Full movement history and geofence breach logs provide forensic timelines for theft recovery and insurance claims

What We Built

Deliverables & Scope

Every item below was chosen because it directly addressed a business bottleneck — not because it was technically interesting.

Multi-protocol telemetry ingestion service that normalizes GPS, RFID, BLE, and cellular signals from heterogeneous hardware into a unified event stream

Real-time asset tracking dashboard with map clustering, geofence management, and per-asset detail views built in React.js

Asset lifecycle management module covering procurement, assignment, maintenance scheduling, and retirement workflows

Utilization analytics engine that computes engine-hours, idle time, and site-level equipment efficiency from raw telemetry events

Alerting and notification system for geofence breaches, prolonged idling, missed maintenance windows, and low-battery device events

Role-based access control layer supporting fleet managers, site supervisors, and executive stakeholders with scoped data visibility

ROI Logic

Why This Generated
Real Business Value

Construction equipment represents 30-40% of a project's capital tied up in depreciating assets — knowing where those assets are and how hard they are working is directly tied to project margin. Tenna's platform converted that tracking problem into a data advantage: customers reduced idle equipment costs, improved asset reuse across jobsites, and recovered stolen equipment that would otherwise have been written off entirely. Every percentage point of utilization improvement across a fleet of heavy equipment translates to six-figure savings in avoided rentals and purchases.

Key Outcomes

99.6%

Asset location accuracy across GPS, RFID, and cellular networks

3.2x

Faster equipment utilization reporting vs. manual spreadsheet workflows

40%

Reduction in lost or unaccounted jobsite assets within 90 days of launch

Why It Worked

The Decisions That
Made the Difference

Good execution matters. But the right early decisions matter more.

Hardware-agnostic ingestion layer meant Tenna could onboard customers without forcing hardware replacement, reducing sales friction dramatically

Event-driven architecture with a time-series data store allowed the platform to handle millions of telemetry pings per day without degrading the real-time dashboard experience

Asset class modeling was built to be extensible from day one — adding a new asset type such as tools, trailers, or attachments required configuration, not code changes

Tight feedback loops with fleet managers during beta surfaced that utilization reporting — not raw location — was the metric that drove purchasing decisions, which refocused the roadmap

Tech Stack

TimescaleDB

Integrations

AWS IoT Core for MQTT telemetry ingestion Samsara API for GPS device data Trimble Maps for jobsite mapping and routing Twilio for SMS alerting on geofence breaches QuickBooks Online for equipment billing and cost allocation

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