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Over recent years, large construction companies have significantly increased their interest in monitoring the equipment that they rent or own with the emergence of telematics. This communications technology, often used on road vehicles, can provide information about the location and activity of all equipment to a user at a computer anywhere in the world.

This project will consist of the hardware design of components necessary to gather information off of existing sensors on construction equipment, and the software necessary to send that information wirelessly to a purchased on-site communications hub. This hub will have a monthly service fee, and will transmit the equipmentÕs data via satellite to a user interface provided to the private customer. The focus of the project will be to transmit data to the user interface that shows specifically the amount of time that a particular machine has been in operation. This information is extremely useful to the customer when renting out their equipment, or when scheduling regular maintenance.