Translucent glass icons representing agricultural fleets: a tractor, a wheat sheaf, a satellite dish, and a long-life hardware emblem.

Agriculture

Fleet telematics for harvest, plant, and rural runs.

Harvest fleets, agricultural plant, rural transport runs across Australia and New Zealand. Satellite-ready hardware for the country past the cellular grid. Ten-plus year hardware deployment - the box outlasts several tractors.

30 minutes, configured to your fleet. No sales script. We respond within one business day.

  • Direct-to-Cell satellite ready
  • 10+ year hardware deployment
  • Per-active-vehicle billing
  • Data hosted in-region

Built for rural coverage

Australian and New Zealand agriculture routinely operates past the cellular network. TRACKbox 4 is built to fail over to Direct-to-Cell satellite where the service is available, designed to keep telemetry running beyond cellular coverage. Direct-to-Cell is live in New Zealand and rolling out in Australia where supported by network availability and plan configuration, with Iridium satellite available for remote Australian coverage today. Ten-plus year hardware deployment means TRACKbox is still in service after the original vehicle has been replaced.

A white farm ute driving a wide red-dirt station track between paddocks at dawn, a windmill and water tank in the distance.

Agriculture

Past the last cell tower. Still connected.

Why Sensium for agriculture

The features that matter when the cellular network ends and the harvest doesn't wait.

Coverage past the cellular grid

Satellite-ready failover. Automatic. No driver action.

Agriculture is the operational use case Direct-to-Cell satellite was built for. When the harvest is in a paddock past the nearest tower, the cellular signal drops and standard telemetry goes silent. TRACKbox 4 is built to fail over to satellite automatically where the service is available, keeping your fleet visible to dispatch beyond cellular. Direct-to-Cell is live in New Zealand and rolling out in Australia where supported by network availability and plan configuration, with Iridium satellite available for remote Australian coverage today.

Where Sensium covers

  • Harvest fleets in remote paddocks
  • Plant + equipment on long-haul moves
  • Rural runs past the cellular grid
  • Distribution out to regional centres
4G LTE primary, Direct-to-Cell satellite ready, single device.

Hardware lifetime

The box outlasts the tractor.

17 yr

Longest reported Sensium TRACKbox deployment still in service. Many original installations remain operational.

10+ year deployment

The TRACKbox outlasts the tractor.

Agricultural hardware needs to survive dust, heat, vibration, and weather. TRACKbox is designed for ten-plus year deployment in those conditions. Some units are still in service after seventeen years. Your total cost of ownership picture is materially better when the telematics hardware lasts multiple vehicle lifecycles.

Seasonal billing

Pay for the vehicles you're using.

Agriculture is seasonal. Some of your vehicles run flat-out for the harvest window then sit parked for months. Sensium pricing is per-active-vehicle - the TRACKbox stays in the vehicle when it's off-season, but your platform billing reflects what's actually in use.

Seasonal model

Activate or deactivate vehicles in Sensium Connect+ as the season demands. The TRACKbox hardware stays installed - it's the platform side that flexes. Avoids the administrative cost of removing + reinstalling units between seasons.

Per-active-vehicle billing. Hardware install is one-time.
Book a walkthrough

See coverage and seasonal billing against your own runs - 30 minutes, no sales script.

Frequently asked

Agricultural fleet questions.

Question 01

What does Sensium do for agricultural fleets?

Real-time tracking with one-second telemetry for harvest fleets and plant, Direct-to-Cell satellite ready hardware for rural coverage past the cellular grid, ten-plus year hardware deployment so the box outlasts several tractors, lone-worker safety for crew working alone in the field, and in-region data hosting.

Question 02

Does Sensium work in rural and remote Australia / New Zealand?

Yes. This is where TRACKbox 4 satellite-ready hardware matters most. Agricultural operations routinely sit past the cellular network, and the device is built to fail over to Direct-to-Cell satellite automatically where the service is available. Direct-to-Cell is live in New Zealand and rolling out in Australia where supported by network availability and plan configuration, with Iridium satellite available for remote Australian coverage today, designed to keep telemetry running through the harvest window beyond the cellular network.

Question 03

How does Sensium handle harvest-season demand vs off-season?

The platform pricing model is per-active-vehicle. Vehicles parked for the off-season can be deactivated and reactivated without re-installation - the TRACKbox stays in the vehicle. This matches the seasonal reality of agricultural fleets where utilisation varies significantly between harvest and off-season.

Question 04

Is the hardware ruggedised for agricultural conditions?

Yes. TRACKbox is designed for ten-plus year deployment in Australian conditions - dust, heat, vibration, all of it. Some units are still in service after seventeen years. The hardware is built for the operational reality of agricultural fleets, not retrofitted from urban-fleet products.

Question 05

Can Sensium track non-powered farm assets like trailers, generators, and towed plant?

Yes. The TB3 is a sealed, battery-powered unit built for assets without a 12V supply - trailers, generators, towed plant, and field equipment. It reports into the same Sensium Connect+ dashboard as the hard-wired in-vehicle units, so powered vehicles and towed plant appear in one view.

Question 06

How accurate is the GPS tracking on farm machinery?

GPS accuracy is around ten metres in typical conditions. Combined with True Path one-second telemetry, that resolves movements and stops across a paddock far more precisely than the two-minute polling most providers use. It is suited to paddock-level fleet visibility, not survey-grade precision agriculture guidance.

Question 07

Does Sensium provide a panic or duress alert for workers operating alone in the field?

Yes. Every in-vehicle TRACKbox has a panic / duress button that triggers a back-to-base alert with the vehicle location. A LoRa-tethered duress pendant extends the safety net to a worker up to around five kilometres from the vehicle - useful for crew checking fence lines, water points, or stock away from the cab.

Question 08

Is the platform available on mobile for use out in the paddock?

Yes. The Connect+ and Driver Connect apps are free on iOS and Android, so fleet visibility and trip information are available on a phone in the field, not just at a depot desktop. Where connectivity is patchy, the TRACKbox stores telemetry offline and forwards it once a signal returns.

Question 09

Where is Sensium fleet data stored, and is it kept in Australia?

All customer data - for Australian and New Zealand fleets alike - is hosted on Australian infrastructure (Google Cloud). Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with role-based access and audit logs.

Question 10

Is Sensium Australian-owned and made?

Yes. Sensium is Australian-owned, and its TRACKbox hardware is Australian-Made certified. It was founded in New Zealand in 2005, has been headquartered in Brisbane since 2011, and designs and manufactures the TRACKbox hardware in Australia with firmware written in-house. The major foreign-owned competitors in this region are overseas-owned.

Talk to Sensium

Coverage map walk-through, harvest schedule, and the rest.

Sensium supports agricultural fleets across Australia and New Zealand. We'll walk through coverage on your specific paddocks and runs, the cost picture for harvest-season billing, and the long-deployment hardware story.

Talk to a council fleet specialist.

Short call, no sales script. We respond within one business day.