It's a common gap across touring fleets: coaches constantly send chassis data to Prevost and to the shop, but the generators and rooftop A/Cs aren't part of that feed. Being able to problem-solve those remotely closes a well-known blind spot. This is that, built.
Investment
$28,000initial+$2,200/ month
Retainer is month to month — no term, cancel anytime.
Why this pays back
One prevented mid-tour coach swap covers years of this engagement.
A generator or bunk A/C failure on a headliner run means hotel rooms for the band and crew, a deadhead replacement coach, and a make-good with the tour — routinely a five-figure night. The chassis already reports home; this closes the gap on the house systems that don't.
Setup timeline
deliberately conservative
6 to 8 weeks from kickoff to full fleet coverage — sensor bridge hardware has to be scheduled into normal service windows on your timeline, not ours. We'd rather beat this date than miss it.
The initial buys
✓Sensor bridge hardware for both generators and all rooftop A/C units, fleet-wide
✓Installation at your Florence shop during normal service windows — no coach pulled off tour
✓The live house-systems dashboard: gen hours, load, temps, switchover rotation, bunk-zone temps
✓Alert routing designed with your shop — what logs silently, what queues, what pages the on-call mechanic
✓Remote status and reset for supported rooftop units
The monthly covers
✓Hosting, data, and dashboard upkeep
✓Sensor maintenance and replacement units
✓Alert-threshold tuning as the fleet teaches us its normal
✓Direct support line to Matt
The ROI math
Year-one investment
$54,400
Break-even
Two prevented house-system strandings. A coach dead in a venue lot runs $10K–$25K once you count hotel rooms, a deadhead replacement, and the make-good with the tour.
Expected year-one return
2–4×
Estimate, not a promise: Assumes 4–6 generator or rooftop-A/C saves per year across a touring fleet of Senators' size.
Speculative scope based on public materials and common patterns across touring coach operations. Real engagement is shaped together — see the note on the Overview tab.
What Prevost already sees
· Engine, transmission, ABS, air system
· Coolant temp and level (the one “stop now” warning)
· DEF/DPF, batteries, chassis fault codes
What your shop can't see — until now
· Both generators — hours, load, temps, switchover rotation
· All six rooftop A/Cs — including the staged spare
· Bunk-zone temps — the complaint that actually reaches the tour manager
On tour right now — house view
Coach 4817
2025 Prevost conversion · Arena tour · leg 2 · Salt Lake City, UT
▲Watch
Generators
Gen A
312 hrs total · 64% load
●Running
Gen B
4,118 hrs total
●Standby
312 hrs since switchover · next rotation due in ~88 hrs (300–400 hr policy)
Rooftop A/C — 6 units
#1●OK
#2●OK
#3▲Low refrig.
#4●OK
#5●OK
#6●Spare · staged
Bunk zone
▲+6°F over set
74°Fset 68°F
Trailing 12 h — the slow creep nobody notices until the calls start from the back.
Coach 4772
2024 Prevost conversion · Festival run · Phoenix, AZ
◆Act soon
Generators
Gen A
6,203 hrs total
◆Fault
Gen B
5,947 hrs total · 88% load
●Running
Auto-switched 9 hrs ago — rotation policy suspended until repair.
Rooftop A/C — 6 units
#1●OK
#2●OK
#3●OK
#4●OK
#5●OK
#6●Spare · staged
Bunk zone
●At setpoint
69°Fset 68°F
Coach 4530
2019 Prevost conversion · Theater tour · Nashville, TN
●OK
Generators
Gen A
8,912 hrs total
●Standby
Gen B
8,710 hrs total · 52% load
●Running
233 hrs since switchover · next rotation due in ~167 hrs (300–400 hr policy)
Rooftop A/C — 5 units
#1●OK
#2●OK
#3●OK
#4●OK
#5●OK
Bunk zone
●At setpoint
68°Fset 68°F
Shop alert feed · today
14:22
Coach 4817▲Watch
Rooftop A/C #3 — refrigerant pressure low, cooling capacity 61%. Bunk zone +6°F over setpoint and climbing.
↳ Spare unit #6 staged. Service window suggested: tomorrow's load-out, Denver.
13:05
Coach 4772◆Act soon
Generator A shutdown — coolant temp exceeded limit. Auto-switched to Generator B (9 hrs ago).
↳ Gen B carrying full hotel load at 88% in 104°F ambient. Parts hold placed at Prevost Phoenix.
09:41
Coach 4530●OK
Generator switchover due in ~70 hrs (300–400 hr rotation policy).
↳ Auto-reminder queued to driver for next fuel stop.