Rental equipment
Your fleet sleeps in the field. You still know it's yours.
Electric mowers, carts, tools, and powered equipment with small controllers that wake, find Wi-Fi, check in, and sleep. Front Desk is the controlled contact point for a fleet that is often offline, sometimes online, and always yours to answer for.
A different problem
This isn't remote desktop. It's fleet contact.
A battery-powered controller cannot hold a connection open all day, and nobody is sitting at it. What the operator needs is different: know when each unit last checked in, act on it while it's awake, and collect what it reported when it wasn't.
Wake, check in, sleep
The controller calls home when it wakes with connectivity: identity, status, health, and usage since last contact. Then it goes back to saving battery.
Act while it's awake
Supported, account-approved actions run at check-in (enable, disable, configuration changes, diagnostic collection) or connect live if it stays online.
Absence is information
The portal shows last contact and reachability for every unit, so "haven't heard from it since Tuesday" is a fact on a screen, not a surprise in the field.
Usage data, your billing
The controller reports the hours. Your systems bill them.
Run time, activity windows, rental hours: reported when the unit checks in, available for your billing system to consume. Front Desk is not the billing system; it is the secure contact path and the device data your billing relies on.
- Usage reporting
- Last-contact visibility
- Enable / disable
- Config at check-in
- Diagnostic collection
- Low-power controllers
Fleet questions
Asked by rental operators.
Do rental controllers have to be online all the time?
No. The model fits devices that wake, connect when they have Wi-Fi and power, check in, and sleep again. The portal always shows last contact and current reachability, so you know what is live right now.
Is Front Desk a rental billing system?
No. Front Desk provides the secure device contact path and the reported device activity data (run time, usage windows, status) that your billing system consumes. Billing stays yours.
What can we do when a unit checks in?
Supported, account-approved actions can run at check-in: enable or disable, configuration changes, or diagnostic collection. If the unit stays online long enough, an operator can also connect to it live.
What hardware fits a rental fleet?
Small Linux controllers are the typical fit: ARM boards, Yocto-built images, and low-memory devices designed to sip battery. The same account and portal also cover any Windows or Linux machines in the operation.