Container Tracking in Pakistan
A container spends most of its life detached from anything with power, in places nobody is watching.
VouchTrack fits a self-powered magnetic tag to dry or refrigerated containers with up to three years of battery. It reports on a schedule while stationary, wakes and reports continuously on movement, detects door opening, and on reefers carries a temperature probe on the same device.
Sensor, network, dashboard
The sensor reports over the mobile network to the same platform that runs our vehicle tracking, so this sits alongside your fleet rather than in a separate system with a separate login.
- One dashboard for vehicles, sites and sensors
- Alerts by app, SMS, WhatsApp and email
- Scheduled reports and a documented REST API
- Installed and supported by our own technicians
How container tracking actually works
A container spends most of its life somewhere nobody is watching. The job is to make the few moments that matter — a door opening, a stop that should not have happened — impossible to miss.
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A self-powered device goes on the container, not the truck
Containers change trucks. If the tracker is on the prime mover you are tracking the haulier, not the cargo. The unit is magnetically or bolt-mounted to the container itself and runs on an internal cell for up to three years, so it keeps reporting through yard time, rail legs and any change of carrier.
Up to 3-year internal cell · IP67 · magnetic or bolt mount
It reports on a schedule and wakes on movement
Reporting every few seconds would flatten the battery in weeks and tell you nothing new about a container sitting in a yard. So it reports every ten minutes while moving and every six hours at rest, and an accelerometer wakes it the moment the container is lifted or the door is opened.
Motion-triggered wake · 10 min moving / 6 h at rest
The route is a corridor, not a line
You define the port-to-yard corridor and the stops that are permitted inside it — a weighbridge, a fuel stop, a customs point. Anything outside that is an exception by definition, so nobody has to sit watching a map deciding what looks unusual.
Corridor width · permitted stop list · dwell thresholds
A door opening off-corridor becomes evidence
The alert carries the coordinates, the time, and the last confirmed sealed reading. Those three facts are what a cargo insurer and a customs officer both ask for first, and having them at the moment it happened is worth considerably more than reconstructing it a week later.
Door event with position and timestamp · exportable claim pack
What you actually get
No wiring, no power source
Magnetic or bolt-on mounting with an internal cell. Fitting takes minutes and nothing on the container needs modifying.
Door-open detection
A magnetic contact ties every opening to a time and a place, so an opening inside the port reads very differently from one on a hard shoulder.
Port, depot and yard geofences
Arrival and departure are recorded automatically at each node, which turns dwell time into a number you can manage.
Reefer temperature on the same tag
For refrigerated containers, a probe reports the internal temperature continuously and alerts on a breach before the cargo is lost.
Battery you are not surprised by
Reporting cadence is configurable, and the platform warns you well before a tag needs a cell change.
Numbers, not just a live reading
A live value tells you the moment. The reports tell you the trend, which is what a budget conversation actually needs — scheduled to your inbox and exportable to Excel, CSV or PDF.
See the reportingThe difference it makes
Each of these is an outcome plus the mechanism that produces it, because a benefit without a mechanism is just a claim.
Deployed and forgotten
No wiring, no power source on the container, no annual battery swap across a fleet of hundreds. Fit it and it reports until the cell is done.
How: Low duty-cycle firmware on a lithium primary cellYou know when it was opened, not just where it went
Position alone tells you a container stopped. A door sensor tells you whether that stop mattered.
How: Magnetic door sensor correlated with GPS and timeDeviation raised in minutes, not at delivery
A container 11 km off the N-5 at 3 a.m. is a decision you can still make. The same fact at the destination is a report.
How: Route corridor with permitted-stop exceptionsEvidence an insurer accepts
Loss claims turn on what can be documented. A sealed-until-here record moves the conversation from your word to the log.
How: Exportable event pack with position, time and seal stateTracking survives a change of truck
Containers move by road, rail and yard shunt. Because the device is on the box, none of that creates a gap.
How: Asset-mounted rather than vehicle-mountedTemperature on the same unit where needed
A reefer container is a cold chain that happens to be a container. The same platform covers both rather than splitting them.
How: Optional probe input; shares the cold chain rules engineFigures shown are typical of what operators report rather than a guarantee. What your fleet recovers depends on where you are starting from — we would rather set the expectation honestly than win the order and miss it.
The technical detail
The questions a technical evaluator asks before a commercial one does. If something you need is not here, ask — we will answer it rather than route you to a brochure.
| What is measured | Position, motion, door open/close, shock, and internal temperature where a probe is fitted. |
|---|---|
| Device | Sealed asset tracker, IP67, magnetic or bolt mount for dry and reefer containers. |
| Battery life | Up to 3 years at default reporting; shorter if reporting is increased for high-value routes. |
| Reporting | Every 10 minutes in motion, every 6 hours at rest, immediate on door or shock event. |
| Positioning | GPS with GLONASS and BeiDou; last-known position reported if a fix is unavailable. |
| Connectivity | Multi-network GSM SIM with roaming across Pakistani operators. |
| Outputs | Live map, corridor and dwell alerts, per-container history, exportable event pack, REST API. |
| Installation | Fitted in minutes per container, at your yard, by our technicians or your own staff after training. |
Before you commit
The things people ask us on the first call about this solution.
Ask a questionMagnetic or bolt-on mounting with an internal cell. Fitting takes minutes and nothing on the container needs modifying.
A magnetic contact ties every opening to a time and a place, so an opening inside the port reads very differently from one on a hard shoulder.
Arrival and departure are recorded automatically at each node, which turns dwell time into a number you can manage.
For refrigerated containers, a probe reports the internal temperature continuously and alerts on a breach before the cargo is lost.
Reporting cadence is configurable, and the platform warns you well before a tag needs a cell change.