For every 50 cars in the UK one is stolen every year. Since you don’t know whether your car will be that 1 of 50, SureTrack can give you added protection and security in the knowledge that even if you are the unlucky single statistic, your vehicle, or any asset, which you want to protect, will be completely recoverable.

For large corporations and /or manufacturing plants the statistics of theft are even worse with 1 in 10 pieces of equipment or plant machinery going missing per year.

If you add to these statistics, 4,000 stolen caravans, 7,000 stolen boats, and 35,000 stolen motorbikes, together with £1 million worth of goods stolen from UK lorries, then you get to a staggering figure of £6 billion of losses annually due to theft alone.

In addition to tracing and tracking stolen assets, SureTrack can have many non-security features ………

MRM & SureTrack - monitoring assets and keeping them protected

MRM, or M-Track (SureTrack) Remote Monitor, is an optional extra to the SureTrack solution that allows customers with specific needs to collect and process valuable data.

MRM has 3 digital inputs that can be connected to a piece of equipment to monitor its status. Important managerial reports are generated using the data collected and transmitted by the unit. These reports empower an organisation to maximise its effectiveness in the management of its asses and, in doing so, are able to decrease operational costs and increase profitability by the automation of the process.

In the past, equipment monitoring has been done by way of wired in telemetry devices reporting to bespoke software packages. These systems are often expensive and offer little other benefit.

MRM has been developed with this in mind and after listening to the requirements of the plant market. Although developed for a specific application, the principle can be applied to many other sectors.

A plant hire company supplying generators to the market previously used two pieces of equipment to monitor and protect their generators:

1 - wired in telemetry devices to monitor the following 3 inputs:

• Power on or off
• Circuit breaker on or off
• Fuel levels high or low

2 - SureTrack as the stolen asset recovery system.

By using MRM, they no longer needed to invest in the expensive telemetry device as the unit monitors the inputs and provides the following management information:

• Report the failure of the unit so that an emergency engineer could be sent out to the machine
• To calculate the schedule of service intervals based on running hours
• To notify of low fuel levels

MRM has no physical connection to the SureTrack, allowing it to be secreted inside the generator without compromising the M-Track's feature as a security, tracking and recovery device.

MRM is ideal for monitoring both non-powered and partially-powered assets where it has a significant advantage over a wired-in telematics box. In addition to the monitoring and security of remote machinery MRM can also be used for:

• Transmission of data from tractors to trailers in logistics
• Remote flow and level sensor readings in environmental monitoring applications
• Emergency warning systems at remote non-powered locations