The tracker built for 12 or 24 volts
The traction battery runs at 48, 80 or 90 volts. A standard device is not designed for that voltage, and the installation stops before it starts.
Special vehicles — Electric telehandlers
48, 80, 90 volts. The tracker still goes on.
Fleet trackers are designed for 12 or 24 volt systems. A battery telehandler runs at 48, 80 or 90, and that is where almost everyone stops. Zenit supplies and installs a device suited to the machine's voltage, and brings location, use and areas onto the same platform as the rest of the fleet.
The point
Valuable machines that the telematics market leaves out.
An electric telehandler costs as much as a lorry, works across sites, warehouses and customers, and is often the one machine in the fleet nobody can say the whereabouts of.
Machines scattered across sites and customers
On hire, lent between sites or parked in a yard: the location is known only to whoever saw the machine last.
Working hours read by hand
Maintenance and rental are based on hours, but the hour meter is only read when someone walks past the machine.
Use out of hours or out of area
A machine used at night or moved off site becomes a problem when someone goes looking for it and can't find it.
The flat battery found in the morning
A machine left uncharged halts the site at the start of the shift, and nobody knew the night before.
The idle machine that costs as much as a working one
Depreciation and hire costs keep running even when the machine doesn't move. Without usage data, the fleet is sized on gut feeling.
The technical difference
Why 48, 80 and 90 volts stop almost everyone, and how we install anyway
The problem is not the software, it's the power supply. It is solved on the machine, not in a catalogue.
What standard telematics assumes
Almost all fleet trackers are designed for the electrical system of a car, van or lorry, at 12 or 24 volts. Industrial electric machines run on traction batteries at higher voltages, and connecting a device designed for something else is not an option.
What Zenit does
Zenit supplies and installs a tracker suited to the machine's voltage, whatever it is. Zenit contacts the installer in the area where the machine is, anywhere in Italy: on site, at the depot or at the customer's premises.
- Electric telehandlers at 48, 80 and 90 volts
- Battery forklifts and warehouse machines
- Electric mobile elevating work platforms
- Other industrial machines with a traction battery
What the technical check confirms
Make, model, voltage, available space and protection from dust, water and vibration. The check also defines the data that will reach the platform: location, areas and use from the tracker; machine signals, such as battery status, only if they can be connected and are confirmed on that model.
What you see
The functions an electric machine fleet needs
Only what is available today. Anything that depends on the machine is stated as such instead of being promised.
Machine location
Where each telehandler is when the device communicates: on site, at the depot or with the customer, on a single map.
Actual hours of use
How much each machine has worked, recorded rather than read by hand: the figure maintenance and rentals are planned on.
Sites and depots as areas
Areas drawn on the map that generate an event when a machine enters or leaves. You define them, around your own operating area.
Out-of-hours alerts
Rules that flag a machine switched on or moved when it shouldn't be, instead of leaving it to be found out in the morning.
Maintenance by hours
Due dates tied to each machine's hours of use, not to one date for all.
One fleet
Electric telehandlers, plant, vans and lorries on the same platform, each with the data from its own device.
What changes
From «it can't be fitted» to «it's on the map with the rest».
No figures claimed: use and savings depend on the fleet and the work, and are measured on your machines.
Before
- 1
Machines outside telematics
The standard tracker can't handle the voltage, and electric machines stay invisible.
- 2
Hour meter read by hand
Maintenance and rentals rely on readings taken whenever someone gets round to it.
- 3
Movements found out afterwards
A machine in the wrong place is noticed when it's missing.
With Zenit
- 1
A device suited to the voltage
Installed on the actual machine, at 48, 80 or 90 volts, and checked before fitting.
- 2
Use recorded
Working hours reach the platform without anyone walking over to the machine.
- 3
Area exits flagged
The geofence generates the event the moment it happens.
Limits
What Zenit doesn't do, said here instead of in the demo
With machines this specific, it pays to be clear from the start about what is left out.
We neither supply nor repair the machines
Telehandlers, forklifts and platforms remain the ones you have. Zenit supplies and installs the trackers and the platform that reads them, not the machine or its servicing.
We do not touch battery management
The device draws power safely from the machine, but charging, management and diagnostics of the traction battery remain with the manufacturer and your service provider.
We do not promise data the machine doesn't expose
Location, areas and use come from the tracker. Alarms, fault codes or battery status are stated only if they have been checked on that model.
It is not an anti-theft system
Location and history can help find a machine that has been moved, but they do not prevent theft and do not replace site security measures.
The value
A machine you can't see is a machine that doesn't earn.
No percentages claimed. These are the levers, and they are measured on your fleet.
Fleet sized on data
Knowing how much each machine works tells you whether you need more or whether some are sitting idle.
Rentals invoiced on actual hours
Recorded hours of use take the arguments out of the end of a rental.
Less searching, less downtime
The machine is found on the map, and maintenance comes before the breakdown.
Before installation
Three decisions that define the set-up
Machines, required data and operating areas determine how to install and which rules to configure.
Voltage
The machines and their voltages
Make, model and traction battery voltage: this is the check that says which device to install and how to power it.
Answered with the machine list or photos of the rating plate and the housing.
Data
The data you need
Location and use are the baseline. If machine signals are needed too, what is available is checked on that model.
Defined before installation, so no report starts out empty.
Rules
Sites, depots and hours
Where the machines may be and when they may work determines the areas and alerts to configure.
Drawn on the map together, starting from the operating area you already use.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about electric telehandlers
Can a tracker be fitted to a 48, 80 or 90 volt telehandler?
Yes. Zenit supplies and installs trackers on any type of vehicle and at any voltage, including battery machines at 48, 80 and 90 volts. Before fitting, the model, voltage, available space and protection are checked, so that the device and power supply suit that machine.
Does the same apply to forklifts, aerial work platforms and other battery machines?
The reasoning is the same: what counts is the actual machine, with its voltage and its housing, not the category. Forklifts, mobile elevating work platforms and other electric machines are assessed the same way before installation.
Do the machine's working hours reach the platform?
Use is derived from the configured tracker, for example from the periods when the machine is switched on. If there are machine signals that can be connected, they are checked on that model: they must not be assumed. The data available is agreed before installation, so no report starts out empty.
Can I see the traction battery level on the platform?
It depends on the device, the installation and the machine, and is confirmed during the technical check. We do not take it for granted: location and use are the data you can count on; anything else is stated only after it has been checked on the machine.
Can electric telehandlers be managed alongside vans and lorries?
Yes. Battery machines, plant, vans and lorries sit on the same platform, each with the data its own device can provide. You don't need a second tool for the electric machines.
Send us the rating plate, not a specification.
Make, model and voltage of the machine: that is all we need to tell you which device to install and what you will see on the platform.