A bolt-on tag that shows which of your hire machines are working, idling or sitting in the yard.
In development, and designed to estimate each machine’s run hours from its vibration (not its hour meter), flag machines that haven’t been out for weeks, and show which services are coming due. Run hours and working-versus-idling from vibration are being trialled in the pilot. You can fit it yourself with no wiring, following our fitting guide, and after the pilot it’s month to month, with 30 days’ notice.
For independent equipment-hire businesses with tens to hundreds of machines.
The problem
- Some machines go out every week; others sit in the yard for a month. Without data it is hard to tell which, or which depot needs them.
- Services are booked off the calendar, or off whichever hour meter someone remembered to read.
- Telematics built for large fleets is often quoted on request and sold on 3-year contracts, which is hard to justify for a fleet of tens of machines.
How it works
YardHours is in development. Everything below describes what it is designed to do.
YardHours is a small, rugged, battery-powered tag that you fit to each machine with four screws: an excavator, compactor, generator, scissor lift or roller. It is planned as an off-the-shelf battery tracker with a motion sensor that feels the machine’s vibration and its own mobile connection, so it needs no gateway, no yard Wi-Fi and no wiring into the machine. Location and connectivity depend on the tag model, which is confirmed in the pilot agreement. The software is designed to sort each machine’s day into working, idling or in the yard, add up run hours towards its next service, and show the whole fleet each week.
Step 1: Tag it
Fix a tag to each machine with four screws, on a flat panel away from hot or moving parts. There is no wiring, and you can fit it yourself, following our fitting guide. We help you set up, by video call or on site in Sydney.
Step 2: Sense
It is designed to tell running from idling or parked by the pattern of vibration, and to count run hours from that. Both are being trialled in the pilot, against each machine’s hour meter. Where the tag model has location, it shows which depot or site each machine is at.
Step 3: Act
Each week you see which machines are earning, which have sat idle long enough to move to a busier depot, and which services are coming due on run hours. Alerts are advice; you decide.
What it measures
One tag per machine, on the outside, with nothing wired in.
1. Vibration and run hours
The tag senses the machine’s vibration to tell working from idling or parked. Run hours are an estimate from vibration, not a reading of the machine’s hour meter, so we suggest checking them against the meter at each service. Telling working from idling, and run hours from vibration, are being trialled in the pilot.
2. Location
Where the tag model supports it, a position with each update, so you can see which depot or job site a machine is at. Location and connectivity depend on the tag model confirmed in the pilot agreement.
3. Tag health
Each tag reports its battery level and last check-in, so a tag that goes quiet shows up.
What it doesn’t do: it doesn’t connect to the machine’s engine computer or hour meter, it can’t stop or disable a machine, and it isn’t a theft-recovery service.
What you get
- A YardHours tag for each machine in the pilot, with its screws and a fitting guide. If you fit the tags yourself, you follow our fitting guide.
- A weekly fleet view on your phone or computer: working, idling and in the yard for every tagged machine, by depot.
- Alerts when a machine hasn’t run for a number of days you set, or is nearing its service hours.
- Run hours for each machine, estimated from vibration (being trialled in the pilot), towards its next service.
- Set-up help, by video call or on site in Sydney.
Founding pricing
We’re looking for a small number of founding hire businesses.
No payment now. Booking a call is free and non-binding. No payment is requested or taken on this page, and a pilot starts only once we have agreed the scope and terms with you in writing.
- Tag included, no upfront fee.
- 90-day pilot on 10 to 20 of your machines, paid monthly from the start.
- After the pilot: month to month, with 30 days’ notice to stop. You choose whether to continue, add machines or stop.
- If you stop, we collect the tags.
- The pilot starts only when the named hardware and alerts are ready to supply.
Prices are in Australian dollars. Full terms are set out in a short written pilot agreement before you start.
Book a 20-minute problem callWhy Jundra
- Jundra is a Sydney software and industrial-IoT company, founded in 2008.
- We have years of industrial IoT sensing and condition-monitoring work, with real-time data collection from field devices, dashboards and alerts.
- We started our own sensor R&D in December 2024 and have built working sensor prototypes since February 2025.
- Built by Jundra: YardHours starts from off-the-shelf tracking hardware, with the sensor design and prototyping experience we offer to clients behind the set-up and data, with AI and knowledge systems where they help, such as sorting each machine’s day from its vibration.
Book a 20-minute problem call
Tell us roughly how many machines and depots you run, and how you track utilisation and services today. It’s a 20-minute call about the problem, not a sales pitch.
Prefer plain email? Write to admin@jundra.com and we’ll find a time.