The 5 Best Asset Tracking Software Systems

Best Overall

Samsara’s asset tracking software is designed to help you locate, maintain, and care for your high value assets, such as large machinery and heavy-duty vehicles.

During our deep-dive into Samsara, we particularly liked its maintenance alerts. You can schedule these based on your machines’ engine usage hours, helping ensure you never overspend on servicing. You can also set up location-based geofence alerts to give you clear eyes on where your most valuable assets are at all times.

With its wealth of features, including GPS tracking and geofencing, Samsara could be overkill for some small businesses looking to track everyday tools or equipment. However, it's our top rated asset tracking software for a reason – it has everything most businesses would need in order to successfully manage assets.

Best for Moving Assets

Verizon Connect offers superb GPS asset tracking software, making it one of the best options for construction companies, or businesses that own lots of moving assets.

All of Verizon’s hardware is weather resistant, with long battery life and 4G capability, ensuring you can track your assets easily from your mobile device or laptop. We were also impressed by Verizon’s asset location and history features, which can automatically alert your smartphone to nearby assets, letting you know where they’ve been and who’s used them.

Unlike Samara, Verizon doesn’t provide any incident reporting features, such as crashing or speeding alerts, which is one downside to consider.

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Best Value Asset Tracking Software

With prices starting at just $125 per month – when tracking up to 500 assets – Asset Panda is one of the best value asset tracking solutions on the market.

Whether you’re looking for education or hospital asset tracking software, we’re sure that Asset Panda has the features to help, including excellent US-based customer support, barcode generation, and alerts that tell you when equipment or technology contracts are due to expire.

Asset Panda’s pricing is based on how many assets you need to manage, which is something to consider if your business starts growing quickly. Its software isn’t as sophisticated as some other suppliers, but it’s still great value for money because it offers a generous range of features at prices that won’t cost the earth. There are cheaper suppliers out there, such as Linxup, but they don’t quite match Asset Panda for overall value for money.

Best for Small Assets

Linxup specializes in smaller GPS devices to help you track your everyday assets – whether they’re power tools, lighting equipment, or waste disposal bins.

When researching Linxup, we liked that you’re able to set up time-sensitive alerts – such as device tampering – get reports on machine hours, and identify each asset’s previous location really easily.

Linxup offers only two price plans, which seems rather inflexible when compared to the companies that offer bespoke pricing to suit your exact needs. However, there is a bespoke option if you have lots of assets to track, but you’ll need to contact Linxup to get more detail on how much that’ll cost.

Best for Mobile Apps

Pulseway has put the mobile user at the forefront, offering cloud-based remote monitoring and management (RMM) software and an excellent iPad app to help you manage your assets on the move.

The software is really easy to use, enabling you to access the entire range of features from its intuitive interface. The downside is that there is no remote desktop access from Windows computers, which might prove difficult for some users. However, if you’re constantly on the go, Pulseway is the asset tracking software for you.