10th April 2018
Unbeknownst to the thieves, their every move was being recorded by our inbuilt tracking device and custom-designed software with data relayed in real-time to our headquarters more than 1,000 km away on the Sunshine Coast.
The software recognised that the bobcat was being started outside prescribed operational hours and sent an immediate alert to the excavator’s owner.
As soon as the bobcat was started up to be loaded onto a truck, the tracking device operated in ‘stalk mode’, mapping the route of the stolen equipment from the worksite in Penrith to an isolated property 51 kilometres away.
Read the full articles online:
Inside Construction – Case study: Thieves foiled by tracking devices
Farm Online – Using GPS and fleet management to protect machinery