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Motive Delivers Beacon Designed to Help Physical Operations Leaders Track Billions of Dollars Worth of Equipment and Maximize Asset Utilization

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SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE)-- Motive, the AI platform for physical operations, today delivered Motive Beacon, a compact and durable tracking device that can help operations teams quickly locate containers and small equipment often overlooked by traditional GPS tracking devices due to their size or value. Motive Beacon is powered by the Motive Mesh Network, the company’s growing network that uses Motive Vehicle Gateways and devices running the Motive Fleet App and Driver App to detect Beacons via Bluetooth and help securely report their last seen location. With the Motive Mesh Network, Beacon can provide the visibility teams need to maximize asset utilization, locate equipment across vast operations, and prevent equipment from being left behind at jobsites.

Physical operations leaders today face a major challenge: tracking billions of dollars worth of assets across jobsites, warehouses, and other field sites to keep construction builds, field services work, infrastructure deployments, and logistics projects on track and on budget. The average U.S. warehouse wastes nearly seven weeks a year searching for lost or misplaced items. Without accurate tracking, resource planning can become costly guesswork, utilization suffers, and unnecessary purchases increase.

Motive Beacon is designed to support industries including construction, logistics, utilities, landscaping, roadway maintenance, and field services and is built for the fast-paced, complex world of physical operations. Whether tracking tools on jobsites, containers in warehouses, or portable generators in transit, Beacon’s advanced infrastructure makes it possible to detect when an asset is offsite or in transit, providing discreet tracking for small equipment and assets frequently on the move.

“Missing equipment costs companies billions of dollars annually,” said Robert Higdon, Director of Product at Motive. “With Motive Beacon, we’re helping give customers the visibility they need to locate equipment and assets within the Motive platform, the same platform they’re already using to manage the most critical pieces of their operations including vehicles, drivers, fleet-related spend, and heavy equipment. Whether it’s tracking billions of dollars worth of equipment, reallocating underutilized assets, or recovering left-behind equipment, Beacon helps teams operate more efficiently without adding complexity.”

"When you’re managing 4,000 pieces of equipment, Motive Beacon is a game-changer," said Cristian Zuniga, Region Telematics Manager at CRH Americas Materials. "It's exactly the lightweight solution we needed to easily deploy across everything from our drones to surveyors equipment. Now we have a single view into how our equipment is actually being used, how often, and where it’s being underutilized. That level of insight helps us save money by pushing us to make faster, smarter decisions about what to scale up, what to retire, and where to invest.”

With Motive Beacon, operations leaders and equipment managers can quickly locate equipment and assets from the same platform they're already using to oversee their operations:

To learn more about Motive Beacon, visit: https://gomotive.com/products/beacon/ and read our blog post. Find out how Beacon extends Motive’s asset tracking portfolio, including the Vehicle Gateway and Asset Gateway Mini: https://gomotive.com/products/equipment-monitoring/.

About Motive

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their workers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises such as Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk across a wide range of industries including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, waste services, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.