When an emergency vehicle responds with its lights on, agencies need to know when, where and how fast. We wire emergency light status into GPS trackers so every emergency response is recorded, for police, fire, EMS and other emergency fleets across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
Emergency lights are controlled from a switch box or siren controller in the cab, often with several stages of lighting. Many controllers provide outputs for the light stages, and many vehicles have a dedicated wire that is live whenever the primary emergency lights are on. We meter the controller or vehicle wiring and connect the tracker to a clean signal through an isolated input, so the tracker never affects the lights.
Wire colors are in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
Agencies review emergency responses for policy, training and liability. A record of when lights were on, combined with speed and route, supports those reviews and protects officers and crews when a response is questioned. It also gives supervisors an honest picture of how often units run emergency versus routine.
Fleet managers also use the data for maintenance. Lightbars and controllers that run for long periods each shift wear differently from units that rarely use them, and alternators and batteries work harder too.
Most agencies record lights with siren status, and many add panic buttons and gun lock monitoring. See our police and emergency vehicle tracking page.
Police departments and sheriff's offices, fire departments, EMS agencies, campus and transit police, and utilities and DOTs with emergency response vehicles.
This is one of the work truck and equipment applications we wire into GPS trackers. See all of them on our PTO and equipment monitoring page, and find wire colors for your truck in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
We wire PTO monitoring into trackers from all of these brands. Need heavy duty trackers for trucks or heavy equipment? Every brand below makes them, so pick yours and we install it.
Common questions
Yes, with the light controller or lightbar signal wired into an isolated tracker input.
No. The tracker only reads the signal.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, at your yard, on your schedule. Call or text 803-513-1009.
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