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LoadoutGuard

Automated Tool Roll Call™

A roll call that takes itself at every stop.

Put a tag on each tool and a small gateway in each truck. LoadoutGuard learns what belongs on board, notices when something doesn't leave with the truck, and texts your crew lead before they're down the road.

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Three steps, then it runs itself

  1. Step 1: Tag your equipment

    Attach a rugged tag to mowers, blowers, trimmers, surface cleaners, ladders, trailers and anything else that rides on a truck. Stick it on, bolt it on or zip-tie it.

  2. Step 2: Equip your trucks

    A small gateway in each truck runs on truck power and automatically detects which tools are traveling with each crew.

  3. Step 3: Get alerted

    If a truck leaves without an expected piece of equipment, LoadoutGuard texts the crew lead and tells you where it was last seen. No app to install.

From a tag on a blower to a text on a phone

Each tag sends a short Bluetooth signal that says which tool it is. The gateway in the truck listens for those signals, and the software decides what's missing.

  1. Step 1

    Tags on every tool

    A small tag on each mower, blower and trimmer keeps saying “I’m here” over a short-range signal.

    • Mower #M-104
    • Trimmer #T-055
    • Blower #B-027
  2. Step 2

    Gateway in every truck hears them

    It runs on truck power and knows where the truck is, so every sighting comes with a location.

    Truck 313 / 13

    At 148 Oak Ridge Dr

  3. Step 3

    LoadoutGuard checks the loadout at every stop

    When the truck pulls away, it compares what left with what should have.

    • #M-104On truck
    • #T-055On truck
    • #B-027Not on truck
  4. Step 4

    Crew lead gets a text

    No app to install. The office sees the same alert on the dashboard.

    LoadoutGuard4:18 PM
    Blower #B-027 was left at 148 Oak Ridge Dr.

    Dashboard: Truck 3, 1 missing

Tags don't carry GPS or a cellular plan. The last-seen location comes from the truck's gateway, which knows where the truck was parked when the tool was last heard. That keeps each tag small, cheap and low-maintenance, so you can tag almost everything.

Two pieces of hardware, both ours

We design the tag, the gateway and the software together, so they're built to work as one system.

Drawing of the LoadoutGuard Tag T1: a small rugged tag on a flange with bolt holesT1LG-A82F19

LoadoutGuard Tag T1

Battery
Coin cell, designed for multi-year battery life
Mounting
Adhesive, bolt or zip tie
Sends
Its ID, battery level and whether it's moving
Per-tool fees
None. No SIM card and nothing to charge
Drawing of the LoadoutGuard Gateway G1: a compact box with mounting tabs, a status light and a 12-volt power leadG112V

LoadoutGuard Gateway G1

Power
12V truck power, with ignition sensing
Location
GPS, so every stop and sighting has an address
Connection
Cellular on the road, Wi-Fi at the yard
Listens for
Every tag on or near the truck

Drawings of our prototype designs. Production hardware may look different.

What your crews do: nothing new

Crews load the truck, do the job and drive to the next stop, same as today. The system does the counting in the background.

  • No scanning

    No barcodes or QR codes to scan at the yard in the morning.

  • No check-in or check-out

    Nobody signs tools in and out. The trucks do the counting.

  • Alerts by text

    The crew lead gets a plain text message with the tool and the address.

  • No app for crews

    Nothing to download and no logins for crew members.

LoadoutGuard keeps track of company equipment, not people. It knows where a blower was last heard, not who was carrying it.

What happens when something's left behind

Truck 3 finishes a residential maintenance stop in Greenville. Here's the afternoon, minute by minute.

Example scenario from the demo data, not a customer story.

  1. 3:32 PM

    Truck 3 arrives at 148 Oak Ridge Dr

    The gateway hears all 13 tagged items the Martinez crew is expected to carry.

  2. 4:17 PM

    Truck 3 pulls away

    Ignition on, truck moving. Twelve tags ride along. Blower #B-027 is still behind a hedge.

  3. 4:19 PM

    Blower #B-027 flagged as left behind

    It was on the truck when it arrived and hasn't been heard since it left. Carlos Martinez gets a text, and the office sees the alert on the dashboard.

  4. 4:24 PM

    Back on Truck 3

    The crew turns around. The gateway hears #B-027 again and the alert is marked recovered.

What Carlos sees at 4:19 PM

LoadoutGuard to Carlos Martinez4:19 PM
Equipment left behind. Truck 3 departed 148 Oak Ridge Dr without Blower #B-027. Last detected: 4:17 PM.

Portable gear gets alerts. Mounted gear gets counted.

Not everything on a truck can be left at a job. You mark each piece as portable or fixed, and the alerts follow.

Portable

Alert if it's left behind

Anything a crew carries off the truck. If it was on board when the truck arrived and isn't when it leaves, the crew lead hears about it.

  • Mowers
  • Backpack blowers
  • Trimmers
  • Surface cleaners
  • Ladders
  • Extension wands

Fixed

Inventory only, never a left-behind alert

Equipment bolted to the truck or trailer. It's tagged so you know what's on which rig and what moved during a trailer swap, but it never sends a left-behind text.

  • Skid-mounted pressure washers
  • Tanks
  • Mounted hose reels
  • Trailers

Try it on a few trucks first

Start with a handful of trucks and the tools that go missing most. Or watch the demo replay a left-behind alert from start to finish.

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