A sweeper driving with the brooms up is not sweeping, and the map cannot tell the difference on its own. We wire the broom down signal, the hopper and the sweeping engine or PTO into your tracker so every street shows whether it was actually swept. We do this across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
A street sweeper uses rotating gutter brooms and a main broom or vacuum pickup to lift debris into a hopper. Municipal sweepers clean curbs and roads on scheduled routes, and smaller units sweep parking lots and job sites.
Many sweepers run their brooms and fans from a separate auxiliary engine, and others use a PTO. Either way, the broom down signal tells the tracker when the truck is sweeping.
Wire colors for the chassis side are in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
The map shows swept streets in one color and travel in another, so supervisors can see coverage at a glance and answer resident complaints with facts. It also shows how many hopper dumps a route needed and when brooms and engines are due for service. The signals are simple on and off inputs, so they work with trackers that have auxiliary inputs. How the reports look depends on how your platform names and shows those inputs.
For the whole group, see our street sweeper and road crew tracking page.
City and county street departments, state DOT maintenance, parking lot sweeping contractors and construction site cleanup crews.
For cities with stormwater permits that call for street sweeping, the broom down record is a simple way to show which streets were covered and when.
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. The broom down signal wired to the tracker marks sweeping separately from driving.
Yes. We read the sweeping signal from the sweeper itself, whether it runs on a PTO or its own engine.
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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