GPS tracker for Glass industry
Track your glass
transport stillages
The professional GPS solution for glass processors and glaziers: locate every glass stillage at your customers' sites, spot dormant stillages, optimise your collection rounds. 5 to 10 years of battery life with no SIM card.
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The challenges
Why use a GPS tracker
in the glass industry?
Glass processors and glaziers often manage fleets of 200 to more than 2,000 glass stillages. Without a GPS tracker, every delivery is the start of a time-consuming, expensive hunt that eats into productivity and margin.
Stillages lost or moved
No visibility once the stillage is at the customer's site. Time-consuming calls to find out whether it is empty and can be collected.
High replacement costs
€400 to €1,000 per metal stillage. Without tracking, you buy replacements for stillages that exist but cannot be found.
Delays caused by shortages
Insufficient stock holds up production. Without a real-time inventory, shortages are discovered too late.
Tedious manual inventories
Shared spreadsheets, manual entries prone to error, out-of-date information — a heavy operational load for your teams.
Theft and unauthorised use
Other suppliers collect your stillages. Customers hold on to them without telling you. Without GPS, none of this is detectable.
The financial stakes
The cost of a glass stillage:
an investment worth protecting
The cost of glass stillages is often underestimated. With recent rises in raw material prices, every lost stillage is a direct hit to your margin.
(depending on size and metal)
Why the cost keeps rising
Made mainly of metal, stillages are directly exposed to rises in raw material prices. A company owns between 200 and several thousand stillages per site. Without GPS tracking, 5 to 10% of that fleet is immobilised, lost or needlessly replaced every year — a shortfall that quickly runs into tens of thousands of euros.
Why invest
GPS ROI in the glass industry:
gains from the first quarter
Our glass industry customers see a fast return on investment across four measurable levers.
How it works
How does a GPS tracker work
on a glass stillage?
A GPS tracker on a glass stillage combines 3 technologies: satellite positioning, low-power NB-IoT transmission and automatic analysis in the cloud. Here is the full process, from deployment to optimisation.
Track — fitted in 1 minute
A standalone tracker fitted in 1 minute on each stillage. No wiring, no power supply needed. A whole fleet deployed in a few hours.
Connect — IoT network with no SIM
Automatic connection to the TRAKmy cloud over NB-IoT. No infrastructure to install, no SIM card to manage. Guaranteed coverage across Europe.
Analyse & act — software ready to go
Automatic inventory per site, retention alerts, optimisation of collection rounds. Direct integration with your ERP through the API.
Step 1
A complete overview
of your stillage fleet
Know at all times where each stillage is — in the depot, in transit, at which customer, for how many days, and whether it is empty or loaded.
Real-time location of all your stillages
A single map: find any stillage instantly, indoors as well as outdoors, without calling the customer.
Analysis of flows between sites
See how your stillages move between your factory, your depots and your customers. Spot processes that are slowing down or stuck.
Automatic inventory & stock levels
Geofences per depot and per customer: the inventory updates in real time with no action from your teams.
Step 2
Track your stillages
beyond your own depot
Your stillages travel to subcontractors, hauliers and customers across Europe. Keep full control of them.
Tracking of discrete process steps
Mark every stage of the stillage life cycle: factory departure → customer → awaiting collection → return to depot. Full visibility of every transition.
Detection of unused, misplaced or damaged stillages
Identify stillages dormant at a customer's site for more than X days. Be alerted if a stillage does not come back on schedule.
SLA compliance and subcontractor control
Verifiable time-stamped data to prove that deadlines were met and to detect whether a competitor is collecting your stillages in your place.
Step 3
Optimise availability
and increase productivity
With full visibility, your teams can optimise rotations, anticipate shortages and increase the productivity of every stillage.
Real-time inventory — no surprise shortages
See your available stock per depot at all times. Anticipate shortages before they hold up production.
Optimised rotation cycles
Identify slow-rotating stillages, optimise their reallocation between sites and reduce the average time they spend at customers.
Mobile app for drivers
Your drivers navigate straight to the exact location of the empty stillages to collect. Optimised rounds, fewer wasted kilometres.
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How we optimised
a fleet of glass stillages
-85% manual data entry
The solution made it possible to keep improving collection performance and to cut manual data entry by 85% — entry that was previously done in a shared spreadsheet between sites. Geofences have completely replaced the phone calls that were needed to find out whether stillages were available.
Location & optimised rounds
The trackers made it possible to pinpoint the last activity of each stillage (departure, movement, stop) and to determine its exact position. Some stillages had a lower rotation rate on certain sites and were reassigned to other depots — eliminating 5% of unnecessary investment in new stillages.
Transparency & contract compliance
The solution demonstrated compliance with contracts and performance indicators. Time-stamped GPS data is objective evidence in the event of a dispute. Geofence and out-of-hours movement alerts keep every stillage secure and properly used.
Hidden gains: theft and suspicious activity
The solution made it possible to detect stillages collected by other suppliers and unreported retentions at customer sites. Thanks to zone exit alerts, the operator is notified immediately of any movement outside the agreed hours — round-the-clock protection of the fleet.
Frequently asked questions
Everything about GPS tracking
in the glass and glazing industry
How much does a GPS tracker for a glass stillage cost?
A professional GPS tracker for a glass stillage costs between €99 and €200 per unit, depending on the model and the quantity. TRAKmy offers trackers with 5 to 10 years of battery life from €99 excl. VAT, with a single annual subscription of €69.90 covering NB-IoT connectivity, the app, alerts and support. A personalised quote is provided within 24 hours, based on the size of your fleet.
How long does a GPS tracker last on a glass stillage?
The TRAKmy ULTRA N and ULTRA N+ GPS trackers offer up to 10 years of battery life thanks to their 10,500 mAh Li-SoCl₂ battery and the low-power NB-IoT network. The COMPACT model offers 3 to 8 years depending on the configured reporting frequency. No recharging is needed for the whole service life of the tracker.
How do you fit a GPS tracker on a metal stillage?
Fitting a TRAKmy tracker on a glass stillage takes less than a minute: industrial 3M VHB™ adhesive, powerful magnets or screws, depending on the stillage. The trackers are certified IP68/IP69K and withstand high-pressure washing. A complete fleet of several hundred stillages can be deployed in a day by your own teams.
Does the GPS tracker work inside customers' warehouses?
Yes. The TRAKmy ULTRA N+ and COMPACT trackers combine 3 positioning technologies: GPS outdoors, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) inside warehouses and workshops. This triple positioning ensures accurate tracking of your glass stillages in every situation, with no need to access the customer's Wi-Fi network or install any specific infrastructure.
Can I integrate the location data into my ERP?
Yes. The TRAKmy platform provides a two-way REST API compatible with SAP, Oracle, Sage and any ERP that supports API integration. Position data, inventory per geofence and alerts feed automatically into your system, removing double entry. Our technical team supports the integration.
Can the tracker detect whether the stillage is empty or loaded?
Yes. The TRAKmy ULTRA N+ includes an orientation sensor (3-axis accelerometer) that detects whether the stillage is loaded (upright) or empty (horizontal or stacked). This information feeds automatically into the platform, letting you optimise collection rounds by immediately identifying the empty stillages to pick up.
The platform
See your stillages
in real time
Intuitive dashboards, configurable geofences, custom alerts — the TRAKmy platform is ready to use within hours.
The hardware
Which GPS tracker
for the glass industry?
IP68/IP69K, indoor + outdoor, tilt sensor — trackers that detect the state of the stillage (empty or loaded) automatically.
Indoor & outdoor · Versatile
ULTRA N+
The reference tracker for glass stillages. GPS + Wi-Fi + BLE: accurate positioning in a customer's warehouse as well as on the road. Built-in orientation sensor to detect remotely whether the stillage is loaded or empty.
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Compact · Small stillages · NB-IoT + LTE-M
COMPACT
An ultra-compact format for small stillages and glass transport equipment. Triple positioning GPS + Wi-Fi + BLE, dual network NB-IoT and LTE-M, 5 built-in sensors including orientation and temperature, replaceable battery pack. Ideal for equipping large fleets at a controlled cost.
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Outdoor · Large fleets
ULTRA N
The economical version of the ULTRA N+ for large outdoor stillage fleets. GPS + BLE, the same IP68/IP69K ruggedness and the same battery life. The budget-controlled way to equip hundreds of stillages.
View product page →IP68 · IP69K · UV-stabilised
Withstands the high-pressure jets used to wash stillages. UV-stabilised, flame-retardant plastic — no degradation after years outdoors, unlike standard ABS.
5–10 years with no recharging
High-density 10,500 mAh Li-SoCl₂ battery. No intervention for 5 to 10 years across your whole fleet, depending on the model and the reporting frequency.
Indoor & outdoor — a single tracker
GPS outdoors, Wi-Fi and BLE inside a customer's warehouse. Accurate positioning with no need to open the customer's Wi-Fi network or install infrastructure.
ERP integration + fast deployment
A two-way API for SAP, Oracle or your own management software. A complete fleet fitted in under a day by your own teams.
Getting started
Book your demo
in 30 minutes
Our experts configure the right solution with you for your stillage fleet, your delivery flows and your challenges.
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