Containers leave the yard, sit on a customer site for weeks, and get moved without anyone telling dispatch. A battery tracker on each can shows which address it is at and how long it has been there.
A container is dropped, the paperwork is wrong, and it sits unbilled until someone drives past it.
Rental-day disputes come down to whose spreadsheet is right. There is no independent record of when the can arrived and left.
Drivers are sent to swap a container that has already been moved, or to an address it never reached.
The FC-113 snaps onto a magnetic mount for steel, or a screw-fix plate. There is nothing to wire and no panel to keep clean.
On the Locate plan every container reports its position once a day and sleeps in between, which is the gentlest life a battery can have.
iMatrix Cloud shows each container on a map with its location history, so dispatch can see where it is and how long it has been there.
On the $11.99 plan a container reports when it starts and stops moving, with geofence alerts when it leaves a site.
| Smaller bins and carts on short rentals | FC-111 — The same tracker with an 8 Ah pack, for $69. |
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| Cans that go inside transfer stations or buildings | FC-115 — Adds Wi-Fi location for when GPS is out of view, plus tamper detection. |
| The collection trucks themselves | FC-221 — A hardwired tracker for the vehicle, with tow and power-cut alerts. |
| Tracker | FC-113 — $79.00 each, one-time. You own it. |
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| Mount | Screw-fix mounting plate $4.95 or magnetic mount $14.95. One per tracker. |
| Monthly plan | Locate $7.99/mo per tracker: one location check-in a day. Or $11.99/mo for motion-triggered tracking and geofence alerts. |
| Contract | None. Month to month; cancel any time and keep the hardware. |
| Two-year cost per container | $275.71 on the Locate plan ($79.00 hardware + $4.95 mount + 24 × $7.99). |
| Example: 100 containers | $8,395.00 up front, then $799.00 a month. |
The FC-113 snaps onto a mount. Use the magnetic mount ($14.95) on steel, or the screw-fix mounting plate ($4.95). One mount is needed per tracker.
It depends on how often the container reports. The Locate plan wakes the tracker once a day, which uses the least power. Tell us your reporting interval and we will size battery life with you. When the pack is spent, a replacement is $23.95.
No. The FC-113 runs on its own 19 Ah primary battery pack, so it works on containers that are stacked, covered, or parked indoors.
The FC-113 is $79 per container, plus a mount from $4.95 and a plan from $7.99 per month. There is no contract and you own the hardware.
Yes. Trucks, containers, and trailers appear on the same iMatrix Cloud map under one login. Use a vehicle tracker such as the FC-221 or FC-201 on the trucks.
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How many, where they sit, and how often you need to hear from them. We will size the tracker, the plan, and the battery life with you.