Highlights
- Solar-powered asset trackers run maintenance-free for up to 8 years — no battery swaps, no service visits, no recurring maintenance line item.
- Built-in Vodafone eSIM covers 180+ countries, so roaming charges stop showing up as surprises on the bill. No extra SIM procurement, either.
- Hardware, connectivity, and fleet management platform sit under one contract — cutting vendor management overhead by up to 70%.
- Hardware ships pre-configured and the platform activates immediately. Deployment takes days, not months.
- Buy outright or subscribe (1–3 year plans). Already running your own platform? Hardware-only procurement is available.
Challenges
If you manage assets across multiple regions, you already know the pattern: the tracker hardware gets scrutinized line by line at procurement, while the costs that actually compound over time never make it into the comparison spreadsheet.
The data backs this up. According to Eseye’s 2025 report “Beyond the Price Tag: The True Cost of IoT Connectivity,” 99.6% of IoT deployments fail to meet required connectivity levels — and 68% of senior IoT decision makers say cheap connectivity providers are not a sound long-term investment. For asset tracking specifically, three cost categories tend to stay invisible right up until they become operational problems.
#1 —— Maintenance: the 22% you didn't budget for
Battery-powered trackers need battery swaps and site visits — there’s no way around it. Industry data shows battery replacement alone accounts for 22% of total asset tracking maintenance costs, and only 18% of tags deployed in the field last beyond 10 years. When your assets sit on remote sites, construction yards, or intermodal routes, every service trip is money out the door — a cost that’s nearly impossible to forecast at procurement and compounds fast at scale.
#2 —— Connectivity and roaming: the bill split across three departments
Run cross-border deployments on local SIM contracts, and roaming charges start surfacing unevenly across billing cycles. Worse, they land in IT, procurement, and operations budgets separately — good luck attributing them to a specific asset or region. Eseye’s research puts a number on the alternative: eSIM localisation can cut unexpected data roaming costs by 60–80% compared to traditional roaming arrangements. For any operation deploying across multiple markets, that’s not a rounding error.
#3 —— Vendor management: three vendors, three times the admin
One vendor for hardware, one for connectivity, one for fleet management software — that’s three renewal cycles, three support contacts, three invoices, and a full onboarding process to repeat for every new region. Research across technology sectors consistently shows vendor consolidation reduces management overhead by 15–25%, with some organisations reporting reductions of up to 70% after moving to a single integrated provider. The hours lost to multi-vendor coordination never appear as a line item in the procurement budget —
but they’re real, and they add up.
Solution
The SYSTECH × Vodafone Asset Tracking Bundle takes a straightforward approach: put solar-powered hardware, global eSIM connectivity, and a unified fleet management platform under a single contract — and close all three cost leaks in one deployment.
8-Year Maintenance-Free
Zero Roaming Fees
One Contract. One Platform
8 years maintenance-free: cross "site visit" off the cost sheet
The Vodafone Asset Solar (VAT-100) is solar-powered, with no battery replacement required for up to 8 years. No direct sunlight? It still transmits up to 700 times — keeping tracking consistent in shade, indoors, or bad weather. For assets in remote or hard-to-reach locations, every service trip you don’t make is a direct, calculable cut to total cost of ownership. Remember that 22% of maintenance costs going to battery swaps alone? This is the answer to it.
Suitable for: shipping containers, trailers, heavy machinery, remote infrastructure assets.
Zero roaming in 180+ countries: turn a variable cost into a fixed one
Every device ships with a built-in Vodafone eSIM, pre-configured for global connectivity — no extra SIM procurement, no roaming contracts, no overage charges. Cross-border deployments run on the same connectivity terms as domestic ones, converting your least predictable variable cost into a fixed, forecastable one your finance team can actually plan around.
Supported network protocols: NB-IoT / LTE-M. Global certification: EU RED, IEC 62368, GCF compliant.
One contract. One platform. One point of contact.
Hardware, eSIM connectivity, and fleet management platform — all under a single contract, with the multi-vendor coordination overhead gone. The Intelli-FleetWeb platform gives you real-time asset location, utilization data, alerts, and reporting across every connected device, with white-label customization available for reseller and distribution partners who want to run it under their own brand.
Deployment model: purchase (full ownership) or subscription (1–3 year plans). Hardware-only procurement available for teams integrating with existing fleet management platforms.
