GPS for the returnable assets worth tracking in transit
Global coverage, long-life battery, guided installation by our team. GPS earns its place on the high-value assets that leave your sites — the ones the analysis flagged as chronic blind spots. Not every asset needs a €90 device; the analysis tells you exactly which do — and whatever you deploy, you're never locked in.
GPS Tracker
Continuous location for the units that leave your control
Vitum's GPS trackers give precise, continuous location to returnable assets that operate in motion or across multiple sites. Natively integrated with Vitum Asset Hub, they let you see where each asset is in real time, review its full movement history, and get a smart alert the moment something goes wrong.
But GPS isn't where you start — it's where the analysis points you. First we quantify, from your own data, which assets you keep re-buying because they never come back. Those chronic non-returners are the ones that earn a tracker. The rest don't need one.
When to use GPS trackers?
The right technology for assets on the move — deployed selectively
High-value units that leave your sites
The €300–3,000+ assets that go into third-party hands and don't reliably come back.
Chronic blind spots
The ones the analysis flags as re-bought year after year — where a tracker pays for itself fast.
Transport & logistics legs
Follow an asset across the journey between your sites, customers and carriers.
Outdoor & remote operations
Coverage on routes, remote yards and anywhere GPS can reach and BLE can't.
Critical or high-risk assets
Continuous location and real-time alerts on the units you can't afford to lose.
Benefits
More than a dot on a map — money back in the yard
Stop re-buying what you own
Recover the high-value units sitting at customers instead of purchasing replacements. The biggest euro line.
Real-time location
The exact position of each tracked asset, from one platform.
Smart alerts
Automatic flags for unauthorised moves, long dwell, or zone exits.
Movement history
The full journey of each asset — for traceability, disputes and rotation analysis.
Feeds the compliance filing
Real per-unit movement data that makes your annual reusable-packaging declaration true, not a guess.
Decisions, not just data
Location turned into the rotation and fleet-sizing numbers your ops and finance teams actually act on.
Integrated with Vitum Asset Hub
The value isn't in the GPS — it's in everything that happens after
GPS is the starting point, never the product. The value is the platform that turns location into action: business rules, smart alerts, automated chase, and the dashboards your team runs the operation from.
And it's device-agnostic. Vitum Asset Hub reads any tag, any OEM, even the telematics you already run — so you're never locked into one vendor, and an OEM that builds sensors into the container becomes free distribution of your data layer, not a threat. You choose the cheapest device that does the job; the platform makes sense of all of them.
GPS, BLE or QR — pick the right technology per asset
| Criteria | GPS | BLE | QR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Assets on the move, outdoors | Continuous presence in the yard / warehouse | Identity on every asset, anywhere |
| How it locates | Satellite, real-time | Beacons & gateways, indoors | One scan, by a person |
| Coverage | National & international | Inside your facilities | Wherever someone scans |
| Cost per asset | Highest — deploy selectively | Low (needs gateway density) | Near-zero |
| Earns its place when | The analysis flags a chronic non-returner | The yard is where the money leaks | Day 1, on the whole fleet |
Not sure which you need?
In most projects they complement each other, and the analysis tells you the mix. Our team helps you define it from your asset types, environment and where your money is actually leaking — not from a device catalogue.