Systems and storage media containing instructions for asset tracking are provided. An example system includes a server and an asset tracking device onboard an asset. The asset tracking device to receive raw data pertaining to the asset, determine a dynamic group of carry-over data points, derived from the raw data, to be used in the performance of a dataset simplification algorithm on the raw data, perform the dataset simplification algorithm on a set of data that contains the raw data and the dynamic group of carry-over data points to determine one or more data points in the set of data to be recorded, and transmit the recorded data points to the server.