2nd April 2025By Neil Skoglund
Asset Tracking
UK businesses tracking vehicles, equipment or shipments deal with a difficult mix of conditions: patchy rural signal, dense city centres, and unpredictable weather - all in the same fleet, sometimes the same day. Whether you're protecting high-value tools, monitoring cold chain deliveries, or keeping tabs on equipment across multiple sites, the tracking technology you choose has to hold up in all of it. That's where Trackpac stands out.
This page covers why Trackpac is built for UK asset tracking specifically, and what makes it different from GPS-only or LTE-based alternatives. For the technical deep dive on how the underlying technology works, see our ultimate guide to LoRaWAN asset tracking, or head straight to our LoRaWAN asset tracking sensors to see supported hardware and pricing.
The UK's mix of remote countryside, dense cities and unpredictable weather is a genuinely hard environment for GPS-only or cellular-based tracking. Most of the tracking technologies businesses default to were designed around simpler assumptions:
Drain batteries quickly, and lose accuracy or drop out entirely indoors.
A monthly SIM fee per device, plus patchy coverage across rural Scotland, Wales and Northern England.
Short range, and need a receiver device to stay nearby to pick up a signal.
Only useful inside the range of a network you control - no good once an asset leaves the building.
Trackpac runs on the Helium Network, with roaming agreements across the UK. Check coverage at your site with the Helium coverage map.
Trackpac sensors last months or even years, cutting down on field servicing and downtime.
Wi-Fi sniffing, BLE, LoRaWAN and optional GPS fallback mean assets are tracked from the yard to the shop floor.
Track temperature, humidity and motion to protect sensitive goods and meet compliance standards.
Our UK-based team handles onboarding and support directly, and can also plan cross-border European coverage if your assets travel further afield.
Trackpac is used by UK businesses across a range of industries, including:
Logistics
Keeping deliveries on time and on track.
Construction
Tracking equipment between active job sites.
Healthcare
Monitoring temperature-sensitive medical supplies.
Facilities
Managing toolkits and machines across large buildings.
Agriculture
Tracking high-value equipment over large areas.
Many businesses default to LTE-based tracking without weighing up the running costs over time. Here's how the two compare:
LTE trackers
Trackpac
Getting started with Trackpac is straightforward:
Need a dedicated team to handle full LoRaWAN network design, gateway installation and systems integration - including for multi-site or cross-border European operations? Our LoRaWAN consultancy services cover everything from LNS selection to on-site deployment.
Trackpac is built for UK asset tracking first, but the same platform and hardware support EU868 frequency planning, so it works the same way if your assets travel into mainland Europe too. Our LoRaWAN consultancy team has hands-on experience deploying private gateway coverage for multi-site and cross-border operations, if you need guaranteed coverage outside the UK.
Trackpac's platform starts from £15 per device per year with no per-message fees, which is significantly cheaper at scale than LTE-based trackers that charge a monthly SIM fee on top of hardware costs. Enterprise pricing is available for larger, multi-site deployments - get in touch for a quote.
Trackpac trackers combine LoRaWAN with GPS, Wi-Fi, and BLE fallback options, so assets keep reporting even where public LoRaWAN coverage is thin. For sites that need guaranteed coverage - large depots, remote farms, cross-border routes - our LoRaWAN consultancy team can design and install a private gateway network tailored to your location.
No. While LoRaWAN and GPS excel outdoors, many Trackpac trackers also use Wi-Fi sniffing and BLE to maintain accurate positioning indoors - inside warehouses, depots, and multi-storey facilities - so the same device tracks an asset from the yard to the shop floor.
LTE trackers need a SIM card and a monthly data plan per device, and their batteries typically last weeks rather than months or years. Trackpac's LoRaWAN-based trackers avoid recurring SIM costs entirely and run for months to years between charges, which lowers both the running cost and the maintenance burden of a large fleet of tracked assets.
Most businesses start with a free consultation and a small pilot batch of devices before scaling up. Once your dashboard and alerts are configured, full deployment - from tens to thousands of assets - typically follows within a few weeks, with online or on-site training included.
For the deeper technical explainer on how LoRaWAN asset tracking works, see our ultimate guide to LoRaWAN asset tracking. Ready to talk through your own deployment? Get in touch for a free consultation.
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